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BkiUbdg5qoYDgceejBIN | Granada acquires 45% stake in Ireland's TV3
By Adam Minns2000-09-11T13:49:00+01:00
UK broadcaster Granada Media has launched its drive to expand overseas, acquiring 45% of Irish commercial operator TV3 from Canada's CanWest Global Communications for $28m in cash.
Granada has also agreed to sell its major programme brands to TV3, with the broadcaster's flagship soap Coronation Street moving from Irish state broadcaster RTE to TV3 next year. The stake will be held in a new joint venture with TV3's founders and CanWest's remaining 45%.
The overseas expansion comes after Granada emerged as the largest UK commercial broadcaster by buying the bulk of the TV assets of rival concern United News & Media this year. TV3 has become Ireland's third most watched channel since launching two years ago, recording an audience share of just under 10%.
Granada chairman Charles Allen said: "Today's deal with TV3 is a significant first step in our European development programme and immediately positions Granada Media as a vertically integrated broadcaster in one of Europe's most dynamic economies." | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdUE25V5jCITp1ghP | UK house prices are rising at their fastest rate for three years, according to the latest data from LSL Property Services.
In November, house prices were up £11,219 from a year ago.
By the end of the 2013 sales are set to be a staggering 16% higher than in 2012.
David Newnes, director of LSL Property Services, owner of Your Move and Reeds Rains estate agents, said: "The housing market is almost unrecognisable from 12 months ago. Not only have average prices climbed to a new record high – with an annual rise of £11,219 and a monthly increase of £1400 – but we've seen an increase in every region for the second month running – a true sign that the nationwide recovery is really taking off. The LSL house price index incorporates all transactions including cash. "Competition is strong through rising demand and supply of new instructions not growing , a factor that will continue to prop up prices in the long term. Confidence is higher throughout the market, with the Help to Buy scheme and record low interest rates contributing to the positivity. Over the second part of this year, consumer confidence has snowballed as the economic picture improves, leading to a significant rise in sales. The increased availability of mortgages, in part thanks to the government's schemes, and the greater range of mortgage deals on offer has swung open the door to a new host of first-time buyers, making the distant dream of homeownership now a reality for thousands.
"Strong headway is finally being made towards a universal recovery. All ten regions in England & Wales experienced positive movement in prices on an annual basis for the second time in three years. Annually prices have increased in over 80% of local areas up and down the country – the highest percentage since September 2010. The trajectory is clearly upwards. Record high house prices have not only been recorded in the capital, but also in areas of the South East including Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cardiff. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUb0DxK1Thg9qFcInz | With XMRV, it was important to differentiate it from all the other mouse retroviruses that are in the family of gammaretroviruses. And this phylogenetic tree [shown in an accompanying powerpoint slide] that was developed by the gene sequencing demonstrated that this particular XMRV that we isolated from the chronic fatigue patients was similar to but not identical to the XMRV that was demonstrated in patients with prostate cancer (which are represented by the VP62 and VP25).
You'll also note that phylogentically, this particular group of XMRV is quite disparate from the mouse retroviruses. What this means somewhat simplistically is that there has been a genetic deviation from the other mouse retroviruses making it very extremely unlikely that this represents mouse contamination in the laboratory.
THAT is a brilliant piece of information!!!
I'm just gonna break that down for those of us who need breakin' down in order to remember.
Ah, excellent! I vaguely remembered there being some way to do that but heck if I could remember how. Thanks for the tip.
And a nice breakdown, Koan. I may have to refer back to this thread in the future.
''It's almost has to come from mice''.
This surely does not tie in with the thread title that starts with 'Not a mouse contaminent'.
I took the following quote to mean that it was unlikely that there was XMRV contamination from other laboratory animals that were in the vicinity where testing occurred. This has nothing to do with how the virus crossed species.
I apologize if the thread title seems misleading. I actually wanted it to read "Dan Peterson: XMRV not a mouse contaminent; new human... etc." but it wouldn't fit. These aren't necessarily my views as I wasn't even entirely sure what to make of these statements myself, and of course the quote comes from Dr.Peterson.
That said, I appreciate the differing views/insight (that's what I was looking for!) Coffin's statements are particularly interesting, and Kim, you could be right there.
Alas, my brain is a bit too fried at the moment to examine the topic much further right now.
This is what it means. This was in the original Science paper also, what Dr. Peterson said was nothing new.
I take it to mean the virus mutated in mice who are immune to thus variant anyway and was able to infect humans. Could this happen frequently? Maybe. My interest of course is whether ticks can serve as a robust vector which finally gives me an explanation for chronic antibiotic refractory Lyme. A larval tick feeds on a field mouse with xmrv and molts to a nymph and feeds on a human. At the end of their feeding period ticks vomit ie regurgitate some of their blood meal which is a very effective way to inject multiple pathogens. Then once in the human blood supply can it sometimes spread to other humans either through body fluids or some other means?
There are 3 statements here.
1. Dr Coffin is right when he says that (originally) it is almost certain this virus came from mice (XMRV and the mouse virus are too similar for it to be coincidence).
2. Dr Peterson is also right when he says that XMRV is sufficiently different from the endogenous mouse retrovirus that it isn't a laboratory contaminant, this is a virus coming from humans.
3. Finally Dr Coffin says that it isn't impossible that the transmission from mice to humans was recent, and that this kind of transmission could happen all the time. The qualification "it isn't impossible" means he himself isn't attaching any likelihood to this scenario. He is just saying it is a possibility (however remote).
1 & 2 are so likely you can pretty much take as facts.
3 is a mere statement of possibility, and falls under speculation.
I wish now I had a science backgound but found this it may or may not be related but thoose more informed may have an opinion.
I know this isn't actually what happened, but when I read Dr. P's statement I keep imagining someone accusing them of letting the lab mice run all over their tissue samples at night. WHEEEEE!
Maybe thoose that did suggest this thought Minnie (Dr Judy) and Mickey (Dr Peterson) were conducting the experiments. However, the people who have questioned the reliabilty of the data have been shown to be Goofy.
Anyway, because of all this news I have been craming up as much as I can about HIV/AID and in nearly 30 years they still haven't figured that one out.Varios conflicting theories of where it came from. It was reconed it could of dated as far back as the 1880's it did not just sudenly appear in the 1980's. The same as has been said of ME/CFS.
It was also interesting to note that there are 2 types of HIV that they think came from different sources. This may also prove to be the case with xmrv. I don't know. One thing though is that there is a lot for knowledge and technology than 30 years ago.
Ironically, I have been involved in educating young people and others re Safe Practice re HIV and have always been careful to the point it is instinctive to be careful re body fluids. To the point that when my partner cut himself badly I reached for the gloves.
It may agood idea if we adapted this attitude until we know other wise. After all we should know better now. I know I am.
LOL, Joy - thanks for the laughs.
David, there may be asymptomatic carriers for the virus (remember that <4% of the healthy controls in the WPI study tested positive for XMRV). It has also been suggested that it may be transmissable through the germ line (you were born with it). Because we know so little about transmission, we're all just making speculations at this point.
What Dr. Peterson meant was that there was no contamination happened IN THE LAB from any mouse experimentation going on. XMRV is a mouse variant of a retrovirus in mice. It was transmitted at some time to the human genome. (Im speculating via vaccines which have to be cultured on animal tissue, which could be contaminated with a retrovirus). But what Peterson meant was that there was NO CONTAMINATION IN THE LAB ITSELF FROM A MOUSE. This is MY understanding.
I don't think anyone's shown DeRisi is goofy.
Chronic Fatigue and Prostate Cancer: A Retroviral Connection?
All previous attempts to nail down a cause for CFSincluding many links to viral infectionshave foundered or been retracted, and many doctors remain doubtful that its a coherent disease. Mikovits says her work proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that CFS is a real disease. But some of her peers find the report of a viral link premature.
Joseph DeRisi, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who co-discovered XMRV, was not satisfied with details in the paper: He wanted to know more about the viral load in CFS patients and how the demographics of the control group matched that of CFS patients. And the Mikovits team didnt do enough to rule out contamination, he says. One has to be very careful about making claims about such a sensitive and emotionally charged issue as CFS, where many claims have been made in the past. At the least, a double-blind study where a third-party lab searches for XMRV in CFS patients and in controls is vital, he says.
Sounds like reasonable caution to me. | c4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
BkiUfYc5qhLBuVPowa1a | hoakley February 9, 2020 Macs, Technology
Last Week on My Mac: SSD it
Last week I finally retired my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system, which has steadfastly stored my Time Machine backups on a succession of hard disks over those years. I've sort of replaced it with an SSD RAID, but it's only sort of as Time Machine has now stopped working. Indeed, what should have been a seamless transition has turned into a bit of a mess: it's still not really up and running in the way I had intended.
After mulling this over and discussing it here, I decided to move my backups onto an OWC ThunderBay 4 (Thunderbolt 3) containing 2 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs. In a bid to fool myself into believing that this wasn't really going to cost me $/€/£ 1500, I quietly bought the first SSD late last year. Then I ordered the enclosure and another two SSDs, with the fourth due on Monday. I did have one heart-stopping moment just after I'd ordered the enclosure: I downloaded the ThunderBay user guide, only to read there that it was incompatible with Samsung 860 EVO SSDs, but a little investigation showed that had only applied to early versions which had shipped in 2018. The current model seems pretty omnivorous.
I opted to turn three of those SSDs into a single striped array (RAID level 0) using SoftRAID XT, a product which I had already relied on in the past. Once I had the SSDs and enclosure, it was just a few minutes work to install the drives and get ready to shut my old Pegasus down, ready for replacement.
SoftRAID 5.8.1 is stated as being "compatible with macOS Catalina 10.15", but its support pages warn that "Catalina prevents the SoftRAID driver from being installed or updated when Secure Boot, (System Startup Security) is enabled." So I knew that once I had installed SoftRAID, I'd have to restart with Secure Boot disabled so that the kernel extensions could be installed correctly. This was starting to become a bit more messy than I had expected, but hey ho.
What I then discovered, the hard way, is that on my iMac Pro running 10.15.3, I can only run with Secure Boot turned off. The moment that I restart with Secure Boot turned on, SoftRAID can't find the required kernel extensions, tries to install them but can't, so I have to force quit the app, restart in Recovery Mode, disable Secure Boot, then restart before I can use the app again. In fairness, this is mentioned in the release notes for version 5.8, which are installed alongside the app. Messier again.
Secure Boot isn't so much of a loss now, perhaps. It's a feature of T2-equipped Macs which ensures that they start up from a certified copy of macOS, and is separate from the option to boot from an external drive. As such its protection overlaps considerably with that provided by Catalina's read-only System volume. So, for the moment at least, I can live with just the one.
SoftRAID is a delight to use. Configuring the three SSDs into RAID 0 took little more than the twinkling of an eye, and the app tells me that TRIM is enabled on all my SSDs and provides full access to those drives for SMART monitoring too. Those are valuable bonuses.
Despite the delays with Secure Boot, I was making good progress, and was ready to invite Time Machine to make its first full backup to the new drive. As this amounted to a little more than 1.2 TB, I was interested to discover how long it would take with 6 TB of striped SSDs. As I described in yesterday's article, Time Machine didn't back up. On at least six different runs, using slightly different tweaks and settings such as whether to include a backup of the System, it has stopped with only 215.90 GB backed up, and refused to go any further.
Unable to make any more progress with Time Machine, I fell back to Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner, a friend from the more recent past than SoftRAID. As you'd expect, Carbon Copy Cloner behaves flawlessly and now backs up my Data and external volumes to the new SSD RAID. Excellent though it is, it's not what I'd choose as a backup system to replace Time Machine completely, so I've been looking at alternatives including Acronis True Image, Arq, and ChronoSync. Of those, Econ's ChronoSync looks the most promising. It's a one-time purchase with free updates forever, and gets a lot of details right, even providing extensive release notes. I'll let you know how I get on with it.
A great deal has changed since I installed my Pegasus RAID. Amazingly its kernel extension has remained compatible with macOS over those years, and still works fine with Secure Boot enabled. But if you were to ask me whether I'd recommend a regular user to try installing this setup on a current model of Mac with Catalina 10.15.3, I'd have to say no. I'm generally happy with Catalina, delighted with the ThunderBay 4 enclosure, and impressed with SoftRAID. But the sad fact is that – for whatever reasons, and I'm here not interested in blamestorming – they don't work together. Yet. There are even moments when I wish my old Pegasus was still connected.
Posted in Macs, Technology and tagged backup, bug, Carbon Copy Cloner, Catalina, ChronoSync, macOS 10.15, RAID, SoftRAID, SSD, ThunderBay, Time Machine. Bookmark the permalink.
IvanExpert on February 9, 2020 at 9:33 am
As good as SoftRAID is, any reason you can't put the SSD's in the Pegasus? Also, just for science, does AppleRAID with Thunderbay work any better with Time Machine?
hoakley on February 9, 2020 at 9:42 am
I don't think that my old Pegasus supports SSDs at all, and the whole point of spending all this money is to replace a Thunderbolt 1 system which is now ancient and completely unsupported.
I did think of AppleRAID, but all that I read tells me that has now been essentially unsupported for several years. I'm not even sure whether it's still available in Catalina. I think I'd sooner revert to the old Pegasus and its hard disks than AppleRAID, given its long history of problems.
That said, at one stage I did start trying to reformat one of the SSDs using Disk Utility, but that just hung, not even reporting an error, making me suspect that the trip to SoftRAID is one way, and I can't afford to put a 2 TB SSD at risk of bricking.
IvanExpert on February 9, 2020 at 1:57 pm
Based on my (limited) experience with SoftRAID, it's not one way (you can certainly revert within the software itself, at minimum). Disk Utility failing to initialize a disk makes me suspect a problem with the SSD! Nothing SoftRAID does should affect a disk's firmware or ability to be erased. You could also try performing an ATA_SECURE_ERASE using Parted Magic (Linux boot USB stick) if it's possible to have the drive directly on an internal bus (e.g. in an optical disk MacBook Pro). That resets the drive to something like factory state, though don't try it on an OWC branded SSD — then it can really brick it. Works fine on Samsung, Sandisk, Apple, Crucial, et al.
I hear you about wanting to move from the TB1 Pegasus, though I still like the unit. But yes a striped SSD would likely be bottlenecked in it. But I have no reason to think that it wouldn't or couldn't work with SSD's — it will just send block reads and writes that the SSD should respond to as a hard drive would.
SoftRAID's developer is also very good about support. It's a labor of love for him, even if OWC is now its parent.
Ben on February 9, 2020 at 4:49 pm
I use SoftRAID on a G-RAID Thunderbolt 1 (or 2?) unit, as a mirrored set. I've had it for about 5 years, and I recently replaced each of the disks in turn, rebuilding each. It works beautifully.
First thing I did when I got my 2018 Mini was turn off Secure Boot.
Barry Sharp on February 9, 2020 at 5:16 pm
1) It seems to me that spending big bucks for SSDs, and then striping them all for Time Machine's use is a big waste of money. Speed for backing up is not really an important thing for Time Machine (except possibly for the first full backup). Each incremental Time Machine backup, for the most part, are small and any less expensive and larger capacity HDD device is quite sufficient for timely backups.
2) I've had SoftRAID (full paid up license) for a number of years. For awhile it did a very good job, but of late it has been a disaster for me. The issues I came across are similar to yours. I found this unacceptable and have since drop my use of SoftRAID. SoftRAID version 6 is long in coming, and do not understand why it's taking so long. Yes, Catalina and APFS really has caused the likes of SoftRAID, CCC, and SD! big headaches, and SoftRAID is simply taking far too long dealing with the issues.
3) Apple's Disk Utility's RAID setup is very straight forward and its software for dealing with RAID has been improved over time. Today, Apple's RAID-0, RAID-1, a JBOD (concatenation) all compare favorable with SoftRAID's performance. I've tested and find there's little difference between them today (it used to be several years back that SoftRAID did perform better, but Apple has quietly made their own improvements and today both perform similarly). So from a performance and support position the Apple's Disk Utility for RAID-0, RAID-1, and JBOD is the sensible approach. Yes, if you need RAID configs beyond what Disk Utility provides you are left with having to use SoftRAID.
4) I agree that SoftRAID's support was excellent prior to OWC buying them. But I find today this is not as good as it should be.
5) I still use my Thunderbolt 1 Promise Pegasus R4 and with no issues. Only yesterday Promise release firmware updates and they were applicable for my R4. So do not understand your comment about the R4 not being supported any longer. I connect to it from my TB3 Macs using the USB-C to TB2 adapter with no issues whatsoever.
6) My question to you is, what on earth possessed you to buy expensive SSDs for Time Machine backups? I simply cannot understand why anyone would want to do this, and especially striping them also.
7) BTW, if you do have SoftRAID installed and you're having problems with your Mac, and want to have Apple deal with the problem under AppleCare+, they will very likely ask you to remove the SoftRAID driver code and reproduce the problem. This has happened to me in the past, and the issue was not able to be reproduced…. now that tells a story.
Please don'y take my previous posting as a criticism. You may have good reasons (not given in your OP) for using SSDs for Time Machine backups. If you frequently find yourself wanting to restore a long-ago file quickly from the Time Machine's backups that might explain why to me. Also, I would assume frequent full restores using Time Machine backups would also be useful for speeding the restores along.
In addition, I also very much appreciate your postings. :-))
Duncan on February 9, 2020 at 5:59 pm
Regarding using SSDs for backups, it might seem extravagant now (hopefully not-at-all in the near future) but once you try it you'll never go back. For my own computer I have an internal 1 TB SSD but manage all my media files on a separate hard-disk-based setup. So I really only use about 400GB of the internal 1 TB, for mail and lots of small text/PDF/etc. files.
I have two external 1 TB backup SSDs (again, not for my large media files), one for Time Machine and one as a strict CCC bootable clone disk. (I also have other spinning disks as offline secondary and tertiary TM backups, so really four copies in all, plus the internal SSD.) The big benefit of using SSDs is that Time machine can complete a backup in under a minute, at the pace that I generate new or changed files. Sometimes it completes in only ten seconds. This vast speed-up is liberating because I can force a backup at any time with no perceived penalty. A typical scenario:
I might have to change a password for an account somewhere, and use a long password-manager-generated string that would be difficult to even write on paper. So I change the password online and for a moment the *only* other place it exists in the world is in my password manager (1Password), and if my SSD suddenly failed I could lose that single copy. So instead I immediately force a Time Machine backup which completes quite quickly, and I can breath easier again.
Once SSD prices drop to the level that all of one's important files can fit on them economically, using them for backups will become mainstream. The only reason spinning hard disks will exist at that point is for large-scale enterprise data storage. I think we're now at a time where the affordability of SSDs is moving past our personal data needs, and it's about bloody time.
"I think we're now at a time where the affordability of SSDs is moving past our personal data needs"
Except, of course, when it comes to internal SSD options on Apple hardware. Those are not priced with the market.
Matthew on February 9, 2020 at 9:24 pm
Howard –
(First off, thank you for your excellent website. Tech+Art =wonderful combo. I've become a regular reader. Greatly appreciated.)
I'm about to retire my spinning drives as well, so your article is timely. I'm running a RAID5 with SoftRAID with an older ThunderBay4 with TB2 ports. Was originally planning on upgrading to a newer TB4 w/TB3, or TB4-Mini, populated with Samsung 860's.
But recently have been leaning towards a QNAP NAS with TB3 (https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tvs-472xt). This would allow me direct-connection for when I need full speed (I'm a professional photographer, and sometimes work with 1~2GB Photoshop files), and for initial backups, but apart from that, I can do everything over WiFi, including my incremental backups.
Curious if you considered a NAS, and if so, why you choose not to go that route?
Also, I've been using CCC for years and found it excellent for keeping bootable clones up-to-date. Curious what aspect of CCC didnt work for you and what you could do with ChronoSync (another excellent software) that you couldnt with CCC?
Thanks again – Matthew
hoakley on February 9, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Thank you all who have commented. Rather than respond piecemeal, perhaps I had better summarise the various discussions we've had here and where I'm coming from.
I have two main production Macs: my iMac Pro, on which almost everything lives, and which I use for most of my work with this blog and development, and a MacBook Pro 16-inch which is a backup system and the Mac I use for beta releases of macOS.
The MBP currently backs up to an SSD, but that's mainly for use when writing and developing, e.g. T2M2.
The iMac Pro has had my old Promise Pegasus RAID, which I must have bought around eight years ago. It's coming up for a change of disks anytime now, so rather than put four new hard drives into it, I thought this was a good opportunity to replace it before it finally dies.
Looking ahead to the next eight years or so, Apple is either going to have to bring Time Machine to use APFS for backups or abandon it altogether. At that time, I really need SSDs for my backups. Currently, the Pegasus has been slower than I'd like. Even without doing much, TM backups to it take 3-5 minutes, when I'd prefer less than 2 minutes. When I upgraded to Catalina, it took well over an hour for the first backup afterwards, which is getting silly.
After a lot of thought and discussion here, I decided that it was daft to buy, say, a replacement Pegasus or ThunderBay 4 with four 2 TB hard drives, when for a bit more I could go straight to SSDs now. The cost of doing this with a Pegasus is significantly higher, so the ThunderBay was the obvious best buy.
I've used SoftRAID quite a bit in the past, and am quite happy to go with it rather than AppleRAID, which hasn't exactly excelled itself, and has a more uncertain future, I suspect. Now that Apple seems to have been providing more help with APFS development, I suspect that SoftRAID 6 is getting closer too.
So, although more expensive than sticking with a RAID hard drive system, I think this combination of hardware has a much brighter future. I'd rather get away from having to replace drives every three years or so, and the trade off for paying more for each storage unit is that they should, with a bit of luck, last another 8+ years, which I wouldn't risk with hard drives even if they didn't fail beforehand. I expect these SSDs should see me well into my seventies, which seems good to me!
Several who have commented on the problems I have experienced are convinced that one or all of my SSDs has bad blocks or is otherwise defective. I know my way around the unified log fairly well, and have seen entries which result from such errors: the log isn't silent when disk read or write fails. However, in this case (on every occasion) there are absolutely no error messages in the log. Nada. All you see are the entries which were marking speedy transfer, every second or so, suddenly drop to every few minutes. It's just as if Time Machine is throttling the transfers. Because I've tried this using different backup options and multiple times to the same RAID, the chances of an identical error occurring at exactly the same point during the backup are almost zero.
Not only that, but similar problems are reported by many Catalina users, typically during the first full backup, and most commonly when backing up to a NAS.
Since I have been unable to complete this first full backup with TM, I've been making backups using CCC every 6 hours or so, and using ChronoSync on a more elaborate schedule. I'll be writing more about these in a future article, but CCC has limited options in backing up and provides no tools to work with incremental backups like these, leaving you with just Finder. ChronoSync has more extensive features, although these still seem limited when it comes to inspecting backups, for instance. I'm also mindful of their performance: despite the much faster media, their backups are no faster than Time Machine, which is disappointing.
I hope this explains why I made the decisions I did, and where I am now.
Thank you for all your comments, which are proving invaluable.
Duncan on February 9, 2020 at 11:28 pm
One note about failed monolithic TM backups: We have a separate Mac set up to record and manage security cameras (using the excellent Security Spy software) which generate enormous amounts of video files. (The current setup uses one Thunderbay-4 for storage and a second for TM backup, each with a 15 TB RAID-5 volume.) On a couple of occasions I've had to completely erase the Time Machine volume and start from scratch, and the first time I tried it was an estimated 10+ hour operation which I left to run overnight.
Needless to say, Time Machine choked before completion, partly because the continously-generated video files from the cameras were overwhelming the entire operation. A second attempt the next day also failed.
So what I did instead was to break up the backup task into 'chunks', by choosing one sub-folder to back up while excluding the rest of the video files. I think it was something like 1 TB for that first chunk, while the other 14 TBs were 'put on hold' as it were. That completed successfully so I had a 'first backup' to the freshly-erased Time Machine volume.
Then, over the course of the next two days, I removed other large folders from the exclusion list (all done through the System Preferences app / Time Machine tab) one at a time, performed another backup, and kept increasing the backup amount until finally the entire source volume was backed up (ie. nothing left in the exclusion list). After that Time Machine could keep up with the now-smaller incremental backups.
Now that's a rather manual way to accomplish what computers are supposed to do for us, but it got that problematic task out of the way. I've also had to use that approach on someone else's machine (thankfully with far less data involved) where it was just too much trouble trying to track down the cause of the failure when we needed a backup more urgently. It falls under the 'crude but effective' category of problem solving.
gastropod on February 11, 2020 at 2:45 am
I really like Chronosync, mostly due to the (sometimes daunting) flexibility. I had a good experience with their support a long while back and they had a bug fix for me in a couple of days. I'm currently setting up a backup of Google Drive to an external drive for a user, and one of the things I hadn't noticed before is that you can compress saved versions, so depending on data type, you can save more versions in less space (though more time). I hope they'll eventually add deduplication and their own encryption so it would be great for cloud backup too.
CCC wouldn't do the GD backup due to permission issues. It always runs as a privileged process, and GD didn't permit that. Rather than try to sort it out, it was easier to switch to CS since it gives you a choice about whether it runs as the user or admin. On the other hand, CCC is more straightforward for simple cloning, and is better about continuing on regardless if there are errors such as bad blocks or corrupted file names; those can hang CS.
Retrospect is another good possibility but they changed ownership recently so things could change in the future. There's a personal desktop version for U$120 (one main non-server computer and attached drives plus 5 additional computers via their clients), and Solo for $50 (one computer plus directly attached drives). There's definitely a learning curve; it's even more featureful and flexible than CS. There's a 45 day free trial. I played around with it and with Arq summer, and I liked Retrospect much better. I'm still tempted to get it, if only to beat any move to forced subscription pricing.
Many thanks for all of your work. The articles are great, as are the utilities, which have saved the day on a number of occasions.
hoakley on February 11, 2020 at 7:59 am
Thank you for your valuable insights, and your kind words.
Retrospect still gives me deeply uncomfortable feelings, but those originate from many years ago, before Time Machine.
Pawel on February 20, 2020 at 12:46 am
Two other exciting tools are:
Mac Backup Guru (One-time purchase ~9USD) – https://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/
Paragon Backup and Recovery for Mac (free) https://www.paragon-software.com/free/backup-recovery-mac/
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BkiUcpnxaJJQnMsbzW9Q | Gain from sale of Depericiable asset is short term even though no depericiation claimed in last two years-Kerala HC
Labels: Income Tax case laws
Kerala High Court in an important Judgement has held that gain arising from the sale of a depericiable asset on which depericiation was not claimed deliberately in last two years by the assessee will still be treated as Short Term Capital Gain.
The assessee in this case did not claim the depericiation in the last two years on an asset which was depericiated in earlier years and such asset was used for business purposes in earlier years and formed part of block of assets. Gain arising out of sale of such asset was treated as LTCG by assessee, claiming that in view of section 50 depericiation was not allowed/claimed on such asset and the said asset has ceased to be part of the block of assets.
The High Court dismissed the contention of the assessee helding that the asset was still a part of block of assets even though depericiation was not claimed by the assessee in the last two years hence the asset continue to be a depericiable asset and gain arising out of it should be treated as Short Term Capital Gain.
The full Judgement is provided herebelow:
Commissioner of Income-tax Versus Sakthi Metal Depot
[2011] 333 ITR 0492 Kerala High Court
RAMACHANDRAN NAIR C. N., MOHANAN V. K., JJ.
C. N. Ramachandran Nair J.-
This is an appeal filed by the Revenue challenging the orders of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal cancelling the short-term capital gains assessment on profit arising to the respondent-assessee on the sale of a building on which depreciation was allowed for several years by declaring that such profit is chargeable to tax as long-term capital gains because no depreciation was claimed or allowed for two years prior to the previous year in which the building was sold. We have heard senior standing counsel appearing for the Revenue and Sri P. Balakrishnan, counsel appearing for the respondent-assessee.
The facts leading to the controversy are the following. The respondent-assessee is a firm which was engaged in business with the principal place of business at Kochi and a branch at Mumbai. The assessee purchased a flat at a cost of Rs. 95,000 in Mumbai for business purposes in the financial year ending on March 31, 1974. Since purchase of the flat, it was used as branch office of the assessee at Mumbai and on the capitalised cost of the building at Rs. 95,000 the assessee claimed depreciation and the same was allowed until the assessment year 1995-96. The written down value of the flat as on March 31, 1995 was Rs. 37,175.80. However, the assessee discontinued claiming depreciation for the flat for the assessment years 1996-97 and 1997-98. The flat was sold during the year 1997-98, that is in the previous year relevant for the assessment year 1998-99 on a total sale consideration of Rs. 71 lakhs. After deducting the expenses towards brokerage and legal expenses of Rs. 3,52,000 the assessee returned profit of Rs. 67,34,210 as long-term capital gains. The Assessing Officer however held that profit arising on transfer of depreciable asset is assessable as short-term capital gains under section 50 of the Income-tax Act. Applying the provisions of section 50, he assessed the profit on sale of the flat as short-term capital gains. The assessee's contention before the Assessing Officer was that it stopped using the flat for business purposes after the assessment year 1995-96 and thereafter the flat was treated as investment and was so shown in the balance-sheet. The Assessing Officer did not accept the assessee's contention that the flat at Mumbai was discontinued to be used for business purposes in the two years following the assessment year 1995-96 because according to him the assessee's attempt was only to avoid payment of tax on short-term capital gains. In the appeal filed by the assessee, the Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals), also concurred with the Assessing Officer and held that the building being depreciable asset and was being used for business purposes, sale of the same attracts tax on short-term capital gains under section 50 of the Act. On second appeal filed by the assessee, the Tribunal solely relying on the entry in the balance-sheet of the assessee wherein the flat of the assessee at Mumbai was shown as investment, held that since the item was purchased in 1974, sale of the flat is assessable as long-term capital gains. It is against this order of the Tribunal that the Revenue has filed this appeal.
Senior counsel appearing for the Revenue contended that the Tribunal's findings are factually and legally incorrect. Before proceeding to decide the case on the merits, we feel the factual controversy as to whether after using the building for business purposes and after claiming depreciation for 21 years, the assessee deliberately did not claim depreciation for two succeeding years, 1996-97 and 1997-98, but simultaneously used the building for business purposes, need not be decided because in our view supported by reasons stated hereinbelow, the sale of a depreciable asset in respect of which depreciation was allowed to the assessee should always be treated as short-term capital gains by virtue of operation of sections 50, 50A and 50B of the Act. We therefore proceed to decide the matter by assuming that the assessee after claiming depreciation for the flat which was used as a branch office at Mumbai from 1974 onwards and in respect of which depreciation was claimed and allowed until the assessment year 1995-96, sold it in the previous year relevant to the assessment year 1998-99 without using it for business purposes for two years preceding the year of sale and in respect of which depreciation was neither claimed nor allowed for those two years. Since the controversy is on the scope of sections 50 and 50A we extract hereunder the said sections for easy reference :
"50. Special provision for computation of capital gains in case of depreciable assets.-Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (42A) of section 2, where the capital asset is an asset forming part of a block of assets in respect of which depreciation has been allowed under this Act or under the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), the provisions of sections 48 and 49 shall be subject to the following modifications :-
(1) where the full value of the consideration received or accruing as a result of the transfer of the asset together with the full value of such consideration received or accruing as a result of the transfer of any other capital asset falling within the block of the assets during the previous year, exceeds the aggregate of the following amounts, namely :-
(i) expenditure incurred wholly and exclusively in connection with such transfer or transfers ;
(ii) the written down value of the block of assets at the beginning of the previous year ; and
(iii) the actual cost of any asset falling within the block of assets acquired during the previous year ;such excess shall be deemed to be the capital gains arising from the transfer of short-term capital assets ;
(2) where any block of assets ceases to exist as such, for the reason that all the assets in that block are transferred during the previous year, the cost of acquisition of the block of assets shall be the written down value of the block of assets at the beginning of the previous year, as increased by the actual cost of any asset falling within that block of assets, acquired by the assessee during the previous year and the income received or accruing as a result of such transfer or transfers shall be deemed to be the capital gains arising from the transfer of short-term capital assets."
"50A. Special provision for cost of acquisition in case of depreciable asset.-Where the capital asset is an asset in respect of which a deduction on account of depreciation under clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 32 has been obtained by the assessee in any previous year, the provisions of sections 48 and 49 shall apply subject to the modification that the written down value, as defined in clause (6) of section 43, of the asset, as adjusted, shall be taken as the cost of acquisition of the asset."
While the contention of the Revenue is that the asset in respect of which depreciation has been claimed when sold should always be assessed as short-term capital gains, the contention of the assessee is that unless the asset sold forms part of the block asset in the previous year in which sale took place, it cannot be assessed to short-term capital gains under section 50 of the Act. In our view section 50 has to be understood with reference to the general scheme of assessment on sale of capital assets. The scheme of the Act is to categorise assets between short-term capital assets and long-term capital assets. Section 2(42A) defines short-term capital asset as an asset held for not more than 36 months. The non obstante clause with which section 50 opens makes it clear that it is an exception to the definition of short-term capital asset which means that even though the duration of holding of an asset is more than the period mentioned in section 2(42A), still the asset referred to therein will be treated as short-term capital asset. No one can doubt that assets covered by section 50 are depreciable assets forming part of block assets as defined under section 2(11) of the Act. Section 50 has two components, one is as to the nature of treatment of an asset, the profit on sale of which has to be assessed to capital gains. The section mandates that a depreciable asset in respect of which depreciation has been allowed when sold should be assessed to tax as short-term capital asset. The other purpose of section 50 is to provide cost of acquisition and other items of expenditure which are otherwise allowable as deduction in the computation of capital gains and covered by sections 48 and 49 of the Act. Here again section 50 provides an exception for deduction of cost of acquisition and other items of expenditure otherwise allowable in the computation of capital gains under sections 48 and 49 of the Act. In other words, section 50 provides for assessment of a depreciable asset in respect of which depreciation has been allowed as short-term capital gains and the deductions available under sections 48 and 49 should be allowed subject to the provisions provided in sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 50. Section 50A also deals with assessment of depreciable asset that too as short-term capital gains and it actually supplements section 50. In our view, the purpose of section 50A is to enable the assessee to claim deduction of the written down value of the asset in respect of which depreciation was claimed in any year as defined under section 43(6) of the Act towards cost of acquisition within the meaning of sections 48 and 49 of the Act. The condition for computation of short-term capital gains in the way it is stated in section 50A is that the assessee should have been allowed depreciation in respect of a depreciable asset sold in any previous year which obvious means that for the purpose of assessment of profit on the sale of a depreciable asset, the assessee need not have claimed depreciation continuously for the entire period upto the date of sale of the asset. In other words, in our view, the building which was acquired by the assessee in 1974 and in respect of which depreciation was allowed to it as a business asset for 21 years, that is upto the assessment year 1995-96, still continued to be part of the business asset and depreciable asset, no matter the non user disentitles the assessee for depreciation for two years prior to the date of sale. We do not know how a depreciable asset forming part of a block of assets within the meaning section 2(11) of the Act can cease to be part of the block of assets. The description of the asset by the assessee in the balance-sheet as an investment asset in our view is meaningless and is only to avoid payment of tax on short-term capital gains on sale of the building. So long as the assessee continued business, the building forming part of the block of assets will retain its character as such, no matter one or two of the assets in one or two years not used for business purposes disentitles the assessee for depreciation for those years. In our view, instead of selling the building, if the assessee started using the building after two years for business purposes the assessee can continue to claim depreciation based on the written down value available as on the date of ending of the previous year in which depreciation was allowed last.
We, therefore, allow the appeal by reversing the order of the Tribunal and by restoring the assessment on the profit on sale of the building as short-term capital gains, confirmed in first appeal.
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Netflix hidden gems: movies and TV shows you need to watch
Great Netflix treasures that have gone under the radar
Welcome to our best Netflix hidden gems guide. This is a deep dive into Netflix's vast library, where we have fished out some of the best hidden gems on Netflix right now.
These aren't just cult movies (although there are some of them in here), but those films and shows that we feel just haven't had the recognition they deserve.
We understand your pain when it comes to Netflix. The infinite scrolling, trying to find something to watch - the bickering with housemates and significant others over what genre of movie, whether or not you can just stick on Tiger King for the 40th time.
Hell, we even try to help with our myriad guides. Whether you are looking for the best movies, awesome TV shows, Netflix documentaries or even crime drama we have you covered. But, what's that? You want more recommendations?
That's why we have created this guide to Netflix's hidden gems. Those movies and shows that rarely make it into a best of, not because they are bad but because they just haven't been found by enough people yet.
Watch these and you will instantly become more popular with your peers. Well, that's an absolute lie but hopefully we can help curtail a few 'what to watch' arguments tonight and beyond.
Netflix hidden gems
1. Happy
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If you ever wondered what one of the directors of Crank was up to now (as we all do), well he's making cracking TV in the form of Happy. This rather violent, blacker than black comedy series focuses on Christopher Meloni as a hitman who starts to see his daughter's imaginary friend, which just happens to be an animated blue unicorn (voiced by Patton Oswalt). This one definitely isn't for the faint hearted - it's over-the-top schlocky, very crude but blisteringly funny at times. Annoyingly it was cancelled after just two seasons but, even though it leaves you hanging a little, it's still well worth a watch.
2. Ragnarok
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While Marvel may have made the Thor myth its own, thanks to the MCU, this Norwegian series does well to take the idea and run with it in a different way. The series focuses on a teenage reincarnation of Thor (in modern day) as well as a whole host of other Norse gods and myths.
3. Kingdom
Think the Walking Dead is the best zombie show on TV? Well, you obviously haven't seen Kingdom. This South Korean TV show is a masterpiece in storytelling. It's an historical epic that focuses on 16th century feudalism in South Korea, with added zombies! If you are a fan of Train To Busan and want a show that sprinkles in a bit of social commentary with its blood and guts, then this is for you.
4. The Fundamentals of Caring
It's rare a film by the Peter Pan of movies (Paul Rudd) would pass us by but this one did first time around, but we're very glad we caught up with it on Netflix. Rudd is a writer who swaps his day job (or lack of it) to become a carer. He is given a job looking after Trevor (a brilliant Craig Roberts ), who has muscular dystrophy. A road trip ensues and it all makes for a rather lovely movie.
5. Good Time
If you had heart palpitation watching Hidden Gems, then maybe avoid the coffee when you watch Good Time - the directorial debut of the Safdie brothers. Batman himself, Robert Pattinson, stars as a bank robber on the run. It's a pulse-pounding thriller that never misses a nervy beat, just make sure that you have a safe place to go to afterwards to calm down.
6. Brand New Cherry Flavor
Brand New Cherry Flavor is a superb horror series that goes full David Lynch in places. The premise: a young director heads to LA to fulfil her dreams but what she gets instead is the ultimate nightmare.
7. John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
This is a beautiful, uplifting documentary that's about John Shepherd, a man who has spent some 30 years trying to contact aliens by broadcasting his music into space. In just 16 minutes, it paints a fantastic picture of Shepherd, is blessed with a fantastic soundtrack and has an ending that will melt the coldest of hearts.
A low-key thriller that passed many by when it was released in 2018, Calibre is about as far removed from Hollywood as you can get, but its fantastic performances and utter sense of dread makes for fine viewing. Jack Lowden stars as Vaughn who, alongside his friend Marcus, find their lives changed for the worse after a deer hunt goes very wrong.
9. Marianne
The first few episodes of Marianne are some of the scariest bits of TV we have ever come across. While the rest of the show doesn't quite live up to the premise, this is a fantastic French chiller. Emma (Victoire du Bois) is a horror writer who comes back to her hometown to find out that the things she has been writing about may not actually be fiction after all. Annoyingly, this is another Netflix show that was cancelled too soon - but pretty much everything does get wrapped up in this one season.
10. Cam
Cam is a horror that focuses on cam girl Alice (a brilliant performance by The Handmade Tail's Madeline Brewer) who goes through something of an identity crisis. It's Lynchian in its story and gets downright creepy in places. If you are looking for a well-crafted, eerie movie that couldn't be more prescient right now, with the rise of things like TikTok and Only Fans, then this is highly recommended.
11. I Think You Should Leave
Now in its second season, I Think You Should Leave is a brilliant sketch show that shows men at their absolute worst. Tim Robinson is the star (and co-creator) and through his jaw-dropping characters he has created a show that feels very relevant right now.
12. The Night Comes For Us
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One of the most violent action movies we have ever seen, The Night Comes For Us is a brutal look at the Triads and gangland violence, which erupts when a girl is saved during a massacre. The fantastic Iko Uwais stars, offering up some amazing martial arts set pieces. You haven't see anything like this in a long time (in a good way!).
13. Kodachrome
If you are currently obsessed with Ted Lasso like we are, then you should definitely watch Kodachrome, a movie that stars Jason Sudeikis as the son who goes on a roadtrip with his father across America to get to Kodak's last Kodachrome lab before it closes down, so they can develop some photos. It's based on a New York Times article and also stars Ed Harris and Elizabeth Olsen.
14. Wormwood
This doc is absolutely fascinating. Created by one of the best true-crime doc makers (Errol Morris), it is about the wild story of CIA employee Frank Olson who, after being part of a top-secret experiment, is killed in strange circumstances. Blending real life, scripted scenes and more this is a great watch.
15. Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun
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Well, this one is simply one of the best hidden gems on Netflix right now. Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun is an amazing Australian sketch show. It focuses on some friends that live together and hi-jinx they get up to.It's The Mighty Boosh coupled with Flight of Conchords and a bit of Monty Python added in. You will be laughing out loud at this one.
Note: All of the above are available on Netflix UK. Please check Netflix in your country for availability.
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Adam Lallana might be on his way out of Liverpool at the end of the season after seven years with the Reds.
The 31-year-old had been tipped to sign a new deal after impressing Jurgen Klopp at times this season, although his lack of game time since the start of the campaign left many feeling as though he was an expendable member of the squad.
Liverpool is understood to be closing in on a £7.25m deal for Red Bull Salzburg midfielder Takumi Minamino, who can operate in a similar role to Lallana.
When asked whether the Japan international will take Lallana's place in the squad, The Athletic's James Pearce revealed that the Englishman is set to leave the club next summer.
"I'm not sure if [Minamino] is viewed as the Lallana replacement but it certainly strengthens that area of the squad," Pearce said. "Lallana will leave at the end of the season."
The Englishman has managed ten appearances in all competitions this season but has started just two Premier League games as Klopp has struggled to find a place for him in Liverpool's exciting attacking line.
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The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches announced its inaugural season 2017 Grapefruit League schedule for the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals.
Season tickets, Suites and Party Decks will be available for purchase Nov. 28 at 9 a.m. by calling 844.676.2017. Single game tickets for all 31 games will go on sale in Jan. 14.
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The home opener is Feb. 28 when the Nationals host the Astros for the first game ever played at the 7,500-capacity stadium under construction south of 45th Street between Haverhill Road and Military Trail.
It will be the first of seven games between the Astros and Nationals at the new ballpark, which will mark the return of spring training to the city since the Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos left West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium after the 1997 season.
The Astros' first game as the home team will take place March 1 against the Miami Marlins.
Each team will begin the spring season on the road with the Astros in Lakeland to face the Tigers and the Nationals in Port St. Lucie to take on the Mets.
The 2017 season is highlighted by visits from the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox for a total of four games. The Red Sox will visit on consecutive days, against the Astros on March 6 and Nationals on March 7. The Yankees will take on the Astros on March 19 while the Nationals play host to the Yankees on March 20.
The Ballpark will welcome six other Major League opponents through its 31-game schedule. The St. Louis Cardinals, Marlins and New York Mets visit a total of five times each, followed by the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves for two games, and the Detroit Tigers for one appearance.
With each team's relocation to West Palm Beach, the Astros and Nationals will play at Roger Dean Stadium a combined 14 times and at Tradition Field seven times, reducing their spring travel.
The Grapefruit League season will conclude at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches with the Astros' spring finale on March 29 against the Marlins.
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BkiUbKrxaL3Sug5GKN59 | Nosocomial infections are a significant issue of public health. In Italy, the incidence of nosocomial infections range between 5 and 8% ; in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) range between 7 and 24.5% .
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BkiUd7M5qoYA4vSM3Wr3 | Home Insights Foley Recognizes West Michigan Cancer Center and Dayton Physicians LLC With Cancer Center Innovator Award
Foley Recognizes West Michigan Cancer Center and Dayton Physicians LLC With Cancer Center Innovator Award
23 November 2009 Media Contact: Jill Chanen News
Organizations Selected For Demonstrated Leadership in Business of Cancer Care.
Foley announced that West Michigan Cancer Center (WMCC) and Dayton Physicians, LLC have been chosen to receive its 2009 Cancer Center Innovator Award. The award was presented at the firm's third annual Cancer Center Business Summit.
The Cancer Center Innovator Award honors organizations that have best distinguished themselves as innovators in the business of cancer care. This marks the first time two outstanding organizations have been recognized with this prestigious award in the same year.
"Foley is proud to present the Cancer Center Innovator Award to the West Michigan Cancer Center and Dayton Physicians, LLC for their approach to providing comprehensive cancer care services in the midst of a precarious economic climate," said Michael Blau, chair of the firm's Health Care Venture Practice. "Both organizations have developed methods of doing business that allow them to cut overhead costs while continuing to move forward with promising innovations in oncology care."
WMCC was chosen for this recognition in part because of its aggressive stance on expense reduction and revenue enhancement, evident by its consolidation and affiliation efforts. Dayton Physicians, LLC was recognized based on its ongoing innovation in oncology specialist diversification within a single professional practice. Additionally, this group is taking steps to weather today's economic storm through expense/overhead reduction and revenue enhancement strategies.
"A commitment by our staff to work shoulder to shoulder, day in and day out, led to the sea change to our operation that has resulted in higher quality care," said Terry McKay, President and CEO of West Michigan Cancer Center. "We are successfully delivering cancer treatment to our patients more efficiently and safely, thanks to our dedicated employees working together."
A committee of Cancer Center Business Summit hosts and advisers selected WMCC and Dayton Physicians, LLC as the recipients of this year's Cancer Center Innovator Award based on survey responses submitted by academic medical centers, non-profit and for-profit community hospitals, medical group practices and other cancer care institutions across the nation. The surveys aimed to identify how cancer care providers are coping with the new economic challenges facing community oncology and what innovative business models they are designing to position cancer centers for future success.
"It is a tremendous honor to be recognized as the recipient of the Foley & Lardner 2009 Cancer Center Innovator Award for outstanding innovation in oncology," said Charles Bane, MD, President of Dayton Physicians, LLC. "The physicians and staff of Dayton Physicians, LLC continuously strive to ensure excellent and technologically advanced medical care for our patients throughout the Greater Dayton area. We view the current economic situation as an opportunity to enhance our efficiency and our commitment to provide outstanding medical care regardless of the economic landscape. With the future reforms in healthcare demanding high quality and efficiency, our practice is prepared to meet those challenges and serve the Dayton Community today and for years to come."
About West Michigan Cancer Center
Founded in 1994 as collaboration between Borgess Health Alliance and Bronson Methodist Hospital, West Michigan Cancer Center (WMCC) offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary, integrative cancer treatment in a four-floor, 55,000 square feet facility located at 200 North Park Street in downtown Kalamazoo. In its 15-year history, the WMCC has averaged nearly 80,000 patient visits a year by Southwest Michigan residents.
Service offerings include radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging including the PET/CT scan, medical oncology, gynecologic oncology and neuro oncology, laboratory services, pharmacy services, genetic counseling, social and psychological services, support services including Tai Chi, yoga, meditation and nutrition/cooking classes, financial counseling, homecare and transportation services, hospice, a resource center and several support groups. The center is also home to the Breast Cancer Clinic & Neuro-Oncology Clinic, a multidisciplinary treatment approach for patients with a new diagnosis of breast or brain cancer. The Southwest Michigan Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is also located at WMCC.
Staff includes medical oncology physicians, radiation oncology physicians, pharmacists, physicists, radiation therapists, oncology certified nurses and support staff. A CEO, medical director and a board of trustees of community and medical leaders make up the leadership team. WMCC participates in National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trials.
About Dayton Physicians, LLC
Dayton Physicians, LLC is a multi-specialty practice comprised of Board Certified Physicians in Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Urology, Pathology and Hematology care. This unique model in part focuses on women's and men's health, as well as other specialties to achieve the following goals:
Outstanding Personalized Care
Comprehensive Scope of Cancer Services
Exceptional Community Service
Latest Nationally Recognized Clinical Research
Academic Physician Fellowship
Excellent Patient Satisfaction
(Specialty) Training
For more information go to: www.daytonphysicians.com.
About Foley & Lardner LLP
The Health Care Industry Team of Foley is consistently ranked a top health care practice by Chambers USA. Foley's Health Care attorneys assist a broad range of clients, including national provider associations, national health care systems, and regional and local providers with creative legal thinking and practical industry experience. With a firsthand understanding of health care's business and legal challenges, Foley advises industry and government leaders in the development of major health care policies and has helped shape the development of some of the nation's largest health care systems.
Foley & Lardner LLP continually evolves to meet the changing legal needs of our clients. Our team-based approach, proprietary client service technology, and practice depth enhance client relationships while seeing clients through their most complex legal challenges. The BTI Consulting Group (Wellesley, Massachusetts) recently recognized Foley as one of the top four law firms shaping the U.S. legal market, while CIO magazine has named Foley to its CIO 100 list six times for our client-focused technology. With nearly 1,000 attorneys in 21 offices and more than 60 practices, count on Foley for high-caliber business and legal insight. Learn more at Foley.com.
Health Care Finance Private Equity & Venture Capital Transactions | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdwM5qsJBjm66_bIi | BEMIDJI-A 39-year-old man in the custody of Red Lake Nation Corrections fled during a visit to Sanford Main Clinic on Wednesday.
The man fled the hospital on foot at noon and was arrested approximately 20 minutes later in the area of Supreme Court Northwest, less than a mile away. During the pursuit, the man allegedly managed to get out of the shackles around his legs.
The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office, the Bemidji Police Department, and the Minnesota State Patrol were all involved in the search for the man. Once arrested, he was transferred back to the custody of Red Lake corrections.
Sanford Health could not immediately provide any information on what the inmate was being treated for, or if he was a patient at all. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcuM5qoYAlE7mUDef | In mathematics,it often happens that a group of mathematicians advances with a certain collection of ideas. There are theorems in the path of these advances that will almost inevitably be proven by one person or another. Sometimes the group of mathematicians can even anticipate what these theorems are likely to be. It is much harder to predict who will actually prove the theorem,although there are usually a few "point people"who are more likely to score. However, they are in a position to prove those theorems because of the collective efforts of the team.The team has a further function,in absorbing and making use of the theorems once they are proven. Even if one person could prove all the theorems in the path single-handedly,they are wasted if nobody else learns them.
There is an interesting phenomenon concerning the "point"people. It regularly happens that someone who was in the middle of a pack proves a theorem that receives wide recognition as being significant. Their status in the community—their pecking order—rises immediately and dramatically.When this happens,they usually become much more productive as a center of ideas and a source of theorems.Why? First,there is a large increase in self-esteem, and an accompanying increase in productivity. Second, when their status increases,people are more in the center of the network of ideas—others take them more seriously. Finally and perhaps most importantly, a mathematical breakthrough usually represents a new way of thinking,and effective ways of thinking can usually be applied in more than one situation.
This phenomenon convinces me that the entire mathematical community would become much more productive if we open our eyes to the real values in what we are doing. Jaffe and Quinn propose a system of recognized roles divided into "speculation"and "proving". Such a division only perpetuates the myth that our progress is measured in units of standard theorems deduced. This is a bit like the fallacy of the person who makes a printout of the first 10,000 primes. What we are producing is human understanding. We have many different ways to understand and many different processes that contribute to our understanding. We will be more satisfied, more productive and happier if we recognize and focus on this.
That was a terrific Thurston quotation!
By coincidence, last week our UW QSE Group sent that *same* Thurston article to all our students.
And so that our physics-oriented students wouldn't feel left-out, that same email included a (Google Books) link to the Introduction to Bob Geroch's excellent Mathematical Physics. Fantastic!
And so that our engineering-oriented students wouldn't feel left-out, we included a link to the April 29, 1957 Time Magazine article The New Age, featuring analysis by Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge. Wonderful!
Not many other human institutions can convey the same confidence as mathematics, science, and engineering … and herein is a great opportunity for the present generation of mathematics, science, and engineering students. | c4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
BkiUbzvxK2li-DeXy3kE | College students and young adults from across the US and around the world are invited to join AD 2014. Sponsored by Alongside Ministries International, we will be studying, serving and living community while traveling through Europe with special focus in France, Estonia & Albania. The dates are June 21 – August 3, 2014. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUa3zxK7ICUubsxufh | Name Change For West End's Delilah Cafe
by Nikki Bayley Aug 28, 2013, 1:29pm EDT
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Goodbye Delilah, hello Seventeen89. West Enders who were looking forward to Delilah's re-opening will have to get used to a name change after former owner, Tap & Barrel's Daniel Frankel launched a lawsuit to stop new owners Daryle Nagata and Paul Puratich' keeping the original name.
According to Business in Vancouver
"...Nagata said that he and Puratich's decision to abandon the name Café Delilah's was not directly tied to the lawsuit nor was it part of an out-of-court settlement. Frankel's Tap and Barrel Restaurants Ltd. alleges in its notice of civil claim that Pier Investments was attempting to pass itself off as being somehow related to the former Delilah's Restaurant and Bar, which operated for 10 years at the Buchan Hotel on Haro Street before it relocated to 1789 Comox Street in 1995."
After quietly opening on August 15th under the name Seventeen89, Nagata and Puratich are serving lunch on Friday, brunch on Saturday and Sunday and dinner from Tuesday to Sunday, focussing on fresh off-the-boat seafood, an oyster bar, steaks, burgers, pasta and vegetarian and gluten-free options. Afternoon tea will be launched soon with a bone china service.
· Restauranteurs abandon name [Business In Vancouver]
· Seventeen89 [Facebook]
Seventeen89
1789 Comox St , Vancouver, BC V6G 2M5 | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUgGk241xiRac9uiLT | BoltPIX Studios began in the early 1980s as Barnard Productions – a leading Los Angeles-based producer of music videos during that period. As Barnard Productions morphed into LightningBolt PIX, the company produced numerous commercials, documentaries, features, image films, 2nd unit and visual FX sequences. At the same time, founder Michael W. Barnard was growing his fine art practice which has most recently culminated in a series of large scale photo-montages called Photofields, a coffee table book – 100 Waves and creating a series of large-format prints from 100 Waves. BoltPIX Studios also offer jarge format archival inkjet printing for a variety of clients and other artists. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUg3DxK7IADTol3OeI | A Pakistani-origin Muslim woman in Charlotte, North Carolina was allegedly harassed in the parking lot of a local shopping mall on Tuesday by a white man in a pick up truck, The Charlotte Observer reported.
The woman, who does not want to disclose her identity, was breastfeeding her child in her car when she spotted a bald man in his late 40s glared at her before pulling out a "long gun with barrel pointed directly at her".
Speaking to the local newspaper, the woman said that she "clutched her baby and walked as fast as she could through the parking lot to an Indian store beside a Big Lots for help".
The lady said that she had not experienced anything like this since she moved to Charlotte 11 years ago.
Her attorney, Mujtaba Mohammed has asked the authorities to treat this as a hate crime.
"He pulls out a rifle and the scary part is that he points it at her while she is sitting there in her car," Mohammed explained.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a statement on March 23, condemning the incident.
A police report of the incident was unavailable on Wednesday when the Charlotte Observer requested a copy.
The local daily reports that the police told the victim that she was right in running towards the Indian store. She said that the people at the store, the police and other 'strangers' came to her aid. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdiQ5qYVBRaD6Oxjo | package armiotsecurity
import (
"context"
"errors"
"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore"
"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore/arm"
armruntime "github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore/arm/runtime"
"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore/cloud"
"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore/policy"
"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore/runtime"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"strings"
)
// SensorsClient contains the methods for the Sensors group.
// Don't use this type directly, use NewSensorsClient() instead.
type SensorsClient struct {
host string
pl runtime.Pipeline
}
// NewSensorsClient creates a new instance of SensorsClient with the specified values.
// credential - used to authorize requests. Usually a credential from azidentity.
// options - pass nil to accept the default values.
func NewSensorsClient(credential azcore.TokenCredential, options *arm.ClientOptions) (*SensorsClient, error) {
if options == nil {
options = &arm.ClientOptions{}
}
ep := cloud.AzurePublic.Services[cloud.ResourceManager].Endpoint
if c, ok := options.Cloud.Services[cloud.ResourceManager]; ok {
ep = c.Endpoint
}
pl, err := armruntime.NewPipeline(moduleName, moduleVersion, credential, runtime.PipelineOptions{}, options)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
client := &SensorsClient{
host: ep,
pl: pl,
}
return client, nil
}
// CreateOrUpdate - Create or update IoT sensor
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// sensorName - Name of the IoT sensor
// sensorModel - The IoT sensor model
// options - SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.CreateOrUpdate method.
func (client *SensorsClient) CreateOrUpdate(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, sensorModel SensorModel, options *SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateOptions) (SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse, error) {
req, err := client.createOrUpdateCreateRequest(ctx, scope, sensorName, sensorModel, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK, http.StatusCreated) {
return SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return client.createOrUpdateHandleResponse(resp)
}
// createOrUpdateCreateRequest creates the CreateOrUpdate request.
func (client *SensorsClient) createOrUpdateCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, sensorModel SensorModel, options *SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors/{sensorName}"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
if sensorName == "" {
return nil, errors.New("parameter sensorName cannot be empty")
}
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{sensorName}", url.PathEscape(sensorName))
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodPut, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/json"}
return req, runtime.MarshalAsJSON(req, sensorModel)
}
// createOrUpdateHandleResponse handles the CreateOrUpdate response.
func (client *SensorsClient) createOrUpdateHandleResponse(resp *http.Response) (SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse, error) {
result := SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse{}
if err := runtime.UnmarshalAsJSON(resp, &result.SensorModel); err != nil {
return SensorsClientCreateOrUpdateResponse{}, err
}
return result, nil
}
// Delete - Delete IoT sensor
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// sensorName - Name of the IoT sensor
// options - SensorsClientDeleteOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.Delete method.
func (client *SensorsClient) Delete(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientDeleteOptions) (SensorsClientDeleteResponse, error) {
req, err := client.deleteCreateRequest(ctx, scope, sensorName, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientDeleteResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientDeleteResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK, http.StatusNoContent) {
return SensorsClientDeleteResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return SensorsClientDeleteResponse{}, nil
}
// deleteCreateRequest creates the Delete request.
func (client *SensorsClient) deleteCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientDeleteOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors/{sensorName}"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
if sensorName == "" {
return nil, errors.New("parameter sensorName cannot be empty")
}
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{sensorName}", url.PathEscape(sensorName))
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodDelete, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/json"}
return req, nil
}
// DownloadActivation - Download sensor activation file
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// sensorName - Name of the IoT sensor
// options - SensorsClientDownloadActivationOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.DownloadActivation
// method.
func (client *SensorsClient) DownloadActivation(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientDownloadActivationOptions) (SensorsClientDownloadActivationResponse, error) {
req, err := client.downloadActivationCreateRequest(ctx, scope, sensorName, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientDownloadActivationResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientDownloadActivationResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK) {
return SensorsClientDownloadActivationResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return SensorsClientDownloadActivationResponse{Body: resp.Body}, nil
}
// downloadActivationCreateRequest creates the DownloadActivation request.
func (client *SensorsClient) downloadActivationCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientDownloadActivationOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors/{sensorName}/downloadActivation"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
if sensorName == "" {
return nil, errors.New("parameter sensorName cannot be empty")
}
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{sensorName}", url.PathEscape(sensorName))
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodPost, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
runtime.SkipBodyDownload(req)
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/zip"}
return req, nil
}
// DownloadResetPassword - Download file for reset password of the sensor
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// sensorName - Name of the IoT sensor
// body - The reset password input.
// options - SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.DownloadResetPassword
// method.
func (client *SensorsClient) DownloadResetPassword(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, body ResetPasswordInput, options *SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordOptions) (SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordResponse, error) {
req, err := client.downloadResetPasswordCreateRequest(ctx, scope, sensorName, body, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK) {
return SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordResponse{Body: resp.Body}, nil
}
// downloadResetPasswordCreateRequest creates the DownloadResetPassword request.
func (client *SensorsClient) downloadResetPasswordCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, body ResetPasswordInput, options *SensorsClientDownloadResetPasswordOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors/{sensorName}/downloadResetPassword"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
if sensorName == "" {
return nil, errors.New("parameter sensorName cannot be empty")
}
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{sensorName}", url.PathEscape(sensorName))
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodPost, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
runtime.SkipBodyDownload(req)
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/zip"}
return req, runtime.MarshalAsJSON(req, body)
}
// Get - Get IoT sensor
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// sensorName - Name of the IoT sensor
// options - SensorsClientGetOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.Get method.
func (client *SensorsClient) Get(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientGetOptions) (SensorsClientGetResponse, error) {
req, err := client.getCreateRequest(ctx, scope, sensorName, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientGetResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientGetResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK) {
return SensorsClientGetResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return client.getHandleResponse(resp)
}
// getCreateRequest creates the Get request.
func (client *SensorsClient) getCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientGetOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors/{sensorName}"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
if sensorName == "" {
return nil, errors.New("parameter sensorName cannot be empty")
}
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{sensorName}", url.PathEscape(sensorName))
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodGet, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/json"}
return req, nil
}
// getHandleResponse handles the Get response.
func (client *SensorsClient) getHandleResponse(resp *http.Response) (SensorsClientGetResponse, error) {
result := SensorsClientGetResponse{}
if err := runtime.UnmarshalAsJSON(resp, &result.SensorModel); err != nil {
return SensorsClientGetResponse{}, err
}
return result, nil
}
// List - List IoT sensors
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// options - SensorsClientListOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.List method.
func (client *SensorsClient) List(ctx context.Context, scope string, options *SensorsClientListOptions) (SensorsClientListResponse, error) {
req, err := client.listCreateRequest(ctx, scope, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientListResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientListResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK) {
return SensorsClientListResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return client.listHandleResponse(resp)
}
// listCreateRequest creates the List request.
func (client *SensorsClient) listCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, options *SensorsClientListOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodGet, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/json"}
return req, nil
}
// listHandleResponse handles the List response.
func (client *SensorsClient) listHandleResponse(resp *http.Response) (SensorsClientListResponse, error) {
result := SensorsClientListResponse{}
if err := runtime.UnmarshalAsJSON(resp, &result.SensorsList); err != nil {
return SensorsClientListResponse{}, err
}
return result, nil
}
// TriggerTiPackageUpdate - Trigger threat intelligence package update
// If the operation fails it returns an *azcore.ResponseError type.
// Generated from API version 2021-02-01-preview
// scope - Scope of the query (IoT Hub, /providers/Microsoft.Devices/iotHubs/myHub)
// sensorName - Name of the IoT sensor
// options - SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateOptions contains the optional parameters for the SensorsClient.TriggerTiPackageUpdate
// method.
func (client *SensorsClient) TriggerTiPackageUpdate(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateOptions) (SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateResponse, error) {
req, err := client.triggerTiPackageUpdateCreateRequest(ctx, scope, sensorName, options)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateResponse{}, err
}
resp, err := client.pl.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateResponse{}, err
}
if !runtime.HasStatusCode(resp, http.StatusOK) {
return SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateResponse{}, runtime.NewResponseError(resp)
}
return SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateResponse{}, nil
}
// triggerTiPackageUpdateCreateRequest creates the TriggerTiPackageUpdate request.
func (client *SensorsClient) triggerTiPackageUpdateCreateRequest(ctx context.Context, scope string, sensorName string, options *SensorsClientTriggerTiPackageUpdateOptions) (*policy.Request, error) {
urlPath := "/{scope}/providers/Microsoft.IoTSecurity/sensors/{sensorName}/triggerTiPackageUpdate"
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{scope}", scope)
if sensorName == "" {
return nil, errors.New("parameter sensorName cannot be empty")
}
urlPath = strings.ReplaceAll(urlPath, "{sensorName}", url.PathEscape(sensorName))
req, err := runtime.NewRequest(ctx, http.MethodPost, runtime.JoinPaths(client.host, urlPath))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
reqQP := req.Raw().URL.Query()
reqQP.Set("api-version", "2021-02-01-preview")
req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = reqQP.Encode()
req.Raw().Header["Accept"] = []string{"application/json"}
return req, nil
}
| github | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
BkiUcGY5qsNCPfdFd9VO | We hosted a cocktail party this past weekend for some good friends who were visiting from out of town. It had the perfect mix of catching up with dear old friends, sitting outside on a fabulous fall night and not too much stress! I love to entertain outside when the weather is glorious. I truly think of my outdoor patio as another room in my house. When I am designing those spaces for myself or for clients I like for them to feel like the inside, with comfy seating (not just the foam boxes on metal frames) bespoke lighting and even curtains and tv's.
I'm not really sure what I was thinking sandwiching in this grown up party in between two of my children's birthdays which are 7 days apart…and we do birthdays BIG in our house so there is a lot involved between family parties, kids parties and all the special treats, more on that in another post. So as the reality of my crunching calendar became apparent, I opted for some really, and I mean really, easy cocktail fare and it turned out to be really yummy!
Spotify on, flowers arranged, children quiet (yes quietly playing legos and readying, the party gods were smiling on me) I even got to sit on my back patio to enjoy a cold beer in quiet before the guests arrived!
Fried Hominy – sprinkle with a little sea salt and cumin…you will pop it like popcorn!
Fried ravioli is always a big cocktail party hit. These from foodandsome.com look amazing!
I like to serve this in either a short mason jar or silver candy bowl depending on your party! This addictive treat will be welcome at a black tie affair or a pig pickn'!
-Mix three or four heaping spoonfuls of dressing over tomato and basil mixture – go ahead and add the dressing even if you are making ahead, it will allow the flavors marry.
To serve, place bread, warm ricotta baking dish and bowl of tomatoes on a platter or cutting board for guests to assemble their own.
Pulled pork from the best bbq outlet around — if you are in the Chapel Hill area, I use Nana Taco, I know its not authentic NC BBQ but it is perfection for this dish.
For the corn cakes: Mix together all ingredients in a bowl, should be thick, not runny. If you need to thicken, add cornmeal a tablespoon at a time. Heat 1" of olive oil in a cast iron skillet. Once oil is hot enough so batter will sizzle but the oil is not smoking, use an ice cream scooper to scoop batter into oil. Once in the oil pat it down a bit so the cake is a little flat. Fry 1-2 minutes per side. Remove from oil and put on cooling rack or paper towels.
For Cilantro dressing: Soak cilantro in a bowl of water for about 5 minutes to get all the grit off the leaves, not much worse that a salad dressing with dirt in it:) In a blender add cilantro, leaving 6-7 sprigs aside to chop for garish, along with the rest of the ingredients. Blend till smooth.
For the Beans: Im not going to lie, in a pinch I have used the bean from Chipotle for this…I do think homemade are better though if you have the time! Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat and add sliced onions and salt, cook until soft, about 4-5 minutes. Add beer and cook until liquid reduces to half, about another 4-5 minutes. Finely chopped cooked bacon and add to the beans. With an immersion blender blend beans till they are still chunky, not smooth. If you don't have an immersion blender, mash beans with a fork or potato masher.
For assembly: Spread heaping spoonful of pureed beans on corn cake, top with yummy pulled pork (heat the pork up in the microwave to get its juices flowing again), garnish with chopped cilantro.
I put these little towers of porky yumminess on a cutting board with a bowl of the cilantro dressing for guests to drizzle as they desire. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUgI3xK7IAEeGRgjwn | I joined AirVPN given the positive feedback it has received over the internet and have been a member for few months now. But, I have a support ticket open (100134) regarding a problem with opening certain sites since 29th Nov with no updates which is very surprising for a paid service. I've had to disable VPN to access these sites which is a big hit to productivity and defeats the purpose of using a VPN.
So question: is there any chance of getting this fixed? If not, possible to get refunded for the 1 year membership I subscribed to few days back?
It's possible Staff have been busy given it's December/January, but I don't know. We certainly can't answer this here.
There is a blocked sites forum. In addition, if you use the routes feature in the Eddie client, certain sites can be made to go outside the VPN tunnel, so that you don't need to turn off the VPN entirely.
It's difficult to say much more, including about the refund. Staff might answer soon though.
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I'm also being ignored by support on my two tickets from Nov/Dec.
Hello, just to clarify, some of the sites which I have trouble loading are amazon.com and goodreads.com so definitely unexpected given that these are well known.
That's really unfortunate given that it's a nice service. Looking at similar forum posts with folks complaining and no response from staff doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Wish I had noticed this before purchasing a year long plan. Oh well..
It's usually temporary and just requires some patience. I have a feeling Staff may have been swamped lately. . I'm sure they'll get back to you.
I can access both amazon.com and goodreads.com. Did you try different servers? Have you tried the routes tool?
I am also unable to connect to either of those addresses as well as IMDB most days. There seems to be more and more sites I'm unable to connect to lately. I'm on Vancouver server. The routes tool shows no problems.
Do you have IPv 6 enabled? The routing servers don't work with it enabled last time I checked.
Not sure who you were asking, but I do not have IPv 6 enabled.
I don't use goodreads so I have no comment on that.. however, amazon has problems for me a lot of the time. It's sometimes slow to load or gives an error which I don't recall. I haven't tried the routes tool. Usually within 10 seconds and refreshing it's working for me.
Agree with "defeats the purpose of using VPN" part. Although staff did say they "thoroughly discussed and it does not depend on us whether we able not to reach some sites via their client and or dns"
Makes you wonder how on earth I'm able to reach all the sites without any issues using different VPN providers or disabling VPN ??
But yet somehow it does not depend on the vpn provider or willing to look deeper into it to be able to find the root cause. But hey there are worst things in life I guess.
There is a simple work around for your problem that I'm currently using by changing the DNS settings in Eddie.
to check if you're dns is not leaking well in this case it probably will as long as your real ISP IP and DNS does not show up your more or less save.
You're not afraid of the dark web, are you ?
Can you explain the problem? Maybe us forum members can help, I would try but I don't even know the problem you have.
Is it slow to load? Impossible to load? Does it give an error? Does it work on another device with the vpn? Have you tried running it in incognito/clearing cookies and stuff etc? Tried it in another browser? Tried disabling AdBlock?
I know you said amazon is a site that's problematic. I have problems with it. I get SSL_VERSION_INTERFERENCE or ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED and there may be others that I have gotten, it's VERY OFTEN problematic. Shortly after the error page, like 2 seconds, the page refreshes and loads. However, without a VPN on, I never get the error message. That's the main reason I asked about more detail. I want to help but I need more information or I'll suggest 1million+ solutions.. I look forward to your response, I hope we help you with the problem!
Thank you so much folks for helping me out!
I tried this DNS suggestion and the occurences of sites not opening up has reduced! I'll keep monitoring this and post updates if any.
Definitely not browser because works immediately the moment I disable VPN. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdN44ubnjow-6Mq1J | What is Federal Pell Grants Program?
The Federal Pell Grant Program offers need-based aid to low-income undergraduate and certain post-baccalaureate students to publicize access to post-secondary education.The highest Pell Grant for the 2009-10 award year was $5,350. Grants are not finances. They don't have to be repaid.
Federal Pell Grants are direct aid distributed via participating institutions to students with financial requirement who have not obtained their first bachelor's degree or who are registered in specific post-baccalaureate programs that result in teacher certification or licensure.
Students can get Federal Pell Grant money only from one school at a time.
To ensure that you qualify to get assistance through this program, you must first fill in a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Schools refer to the information from the FAFSA to decide your actual financial grant package. You can fill in the form online at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/. Your school will tell you how much money you will recieve for that academic year. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUczI25V5ihkoTWc-F | Apple employees will be able to shoot hoops and play tennis at the company's new Apple Park headquarters.
Aerial videographer Matthew Roberts released new drone footage Monday of Apple's new headquarters, spanning 175 acres in Cupertino, Calif.
The drone footage shows some overhead shots of the nearly-finished campus, with several up-close shots of the massive 2.8 million spherical building serving as Apple Park's centerpiece, where employees will be working. The video also shows new paved paths that crisscross throughout the campus, while big trucks are shown to be transporting trees to their designated planting areas.
Apple (aapl) is also installing two big basketball and tennis courts for employees to use during their spare time. The courts however, appear to be unfinished as of when the video was recording, depicting a few massive empty lots for the time being.
In September, drone pilot Duncan Sinfield recorded aerial footage of Apple Park in prelude to the company's latest iPhone launch.
Sinfield's footage also featured Apple's new auditorium, the Steve Jobs Theater, where Apple recently held its big media event and unveiled the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X, among other products. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUa-c5qX_AY1OJKnvf | During the Second World War (1939-1945), cities, towns and villages organised "warship weeks" to raise money to meet the cost of providing a particular naval ship. The aim was that cities would raise enough money to pay for the battleships and aircraft carriers, and towns for cruisers and destroyers. Small towns and villages were set a figure relative to their size, and would attempt to raise the required funds.
Once enough money had been raised for the ship, the local community would adopt the ship. Local organisations, women's institutes, churches and schools would also provide additional comforts for the crews of the ship they had adopted. This was usually in the form of woollen socks, gloves and balaclavas. Children would often write letters and send cards to the crew. When possible, officers and men from the adopted ship would visit the local community, and to celebrate their visit, there would often be a parade.
Update to Warship Week Sudbury following Russ Taylor's presentation of the mounted and inscribed painting of H.M.S. Scarab to the Townspeople of Sudbury.
I hope this finds you well? Please find attached a photo of the wonderful painting you sent to us in Sudbury – now on display in the museum. I hope this photo is OK as my camera is not an expensive one. I believe the Mayor's secretary has also emailed a photo to you this week too. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUbfy6NNjgB0Ss0fRH | Mountain Bell
CASE 8-1 Mountain Bell Telephone Company Jim Martin, marketing research manager for Mountain Bell, studied the final research design for the hospital administrator study that had been prepared by Industrial Surveys, a marketing research firm in Denver. He realized that he needed to formulate some recommendations with respect to some very specific questions. Should individual personal interviewers be used as suggested by Industrial Surveys, or should a series of one to six focus-group interviews be used instead? Was the questionnaire satisfactory?Should individual questions be added, deleted, or modified? Should the flow be changed? Exactly who should be sampled, and what should the sample size be? Research Setting About 20 field salespeople at Mountain Bell Telephone Company were involved in sales of communication equipment and services to the health-care industry.
Because of Job rotations and reorganizations, few salespeople had been in their present positions for more than three years. They were expected to determine customer needs and problems and to design responsive communication systems.In addition, there was a health-care industry manager, Andy Smyth, who had overall responsibility for the healthcare industry marketing effort at Mountain Bell, although none of the sales personnel reported directly to him. He prepared a marketing action plan and worked to see that it was implemented. The marketing action plan covered Sales objective by product and by segment Sales training programs Development of sales support materials and information Andy Smyth was appointed only recently to his current position, although he had worked in the healthcare market for several years while with the Eastern Bell Telephone Company.
Thus, he did have some firsthand knowledge of customer concerns. Further, there was an AT&T marketing plan for the lath-care industry which included an industry profile; however, it lacked the detailed information needed, especially at the local level. It also lacked current information as to competitive products and strategies.
Mountain Bell had long been a quasi-monopoly, but during the past decade had seen vigorous aggressive competitors appear. Andy Smyth thought it imperative to learn exactly what competitive products basis of their competitive appeal.He also felt the need for some objective in-depth information as to how major Mountain Bell customers in the health-care industry perceived the company's product line and its ales force. He hypothesized that the sales force was generally weak in terms of understanding customers' communication needs and problems. He felt that such information would be particularly helpful in understanding customers' concerns and in developing an effective sales training program.
He hoped that the end result would be to make the sales force more customer oriented and to increase revenues from the health-care market.While at Eastern Bell, Andy Smyth had initiated a mail survey of hospital administrators that had been of some value. Several months before, he had approached Jim Martin with the idea of doing something similar at Mountain. Jims reaction was that the questionnaire previously used was too general (that is one question was: What basic issues confront the health-care area? ) or too difficult to answer (How much do you budget monthly for telecommunications equipment or service? 0-$1,000; $1 etc.
) Further, he felt that indents individual interviews would be more fruitful.Thus, he contacted Industrial Surveys, which, after considerable discussion with both Jim and Andy, created the research design. They were guided by the following research objectives: 1 . What are the awareness and usage levels of competitive telecommunications products by the hospital? 2. What is the perception of Mountain Bell's sales force capabilities as compared to other telecommunications vendors? 3. What is the decision-making process as it pertains to the identification, selection, and purchase of telecommunications equipment? 4.
What concerns/problems impact most directly upon the hospital's (department's) daily operations? . What are the perceived deficiencies and suggestions for improvement of work/information flow? Research Design Research interviews will be conducted in seven Denver area hospitals with the hospital administrator and, where possible, with the financial officer and the telecommunications manager. A total of 14 interviews are planned. Interviews will be held by appointment, and each respondent will be probed relative to those overall objectives.
The cost will be from $6,500 to $8,500, depending on the time involved to complete the interviews. The questionnaire to be used follows.D. A. Awareness and Usage of Competitive Telecommunications Equipment 1 .
What departments presently use non-Bell voice communications equipment (paging, intercom, message recording, etc. )? What were the main considerations in selecting this equipment? 2. What departments use non-Bell data terminals (Crust)? What are the major functions/activities that this equipment is used for? What were the main considerations in selecting this equipment? 3. How do you view the capabilities of Bell System voice-communications equipment to meet your operations needs? 4.How do you view the capabilities of Bell System data terminals to meet your records- and information-retrieval needs? 5. What do you feel are Mountain Bell's main strengths and/or weaknesses in meeting your hospital's overall telecommunications needs? B. Perceptions of the Mountain Bell Sales Force 1 .
What should a telecommunications specialist know about the hospital industry in order to adequately address your voice- communications and data-processing needs? 2. Have you ever worked with any Mountain Bell marketing people in terms of your communications needs?If so, how knowledgeable do you perceive the Mountain Bell sales force to be with respect to both the health-care industry and their telecommunications equipment? How do they compare to non-Bell vendors of such products? C. Purchasing Decision 1 . What is the standard procedure for selecting and authorizing a telecommunications purchase? Is this based primarily on the dollar amount involved or type of technology? 2. Who has the greatest input on the telecommunications decision (department manager, administrator, physicians, and so on)? 3.What are the most important considerations in evaluating a potential telecommunications purchase (equipment price, cost-savings potential, available budget, and so on)? 4. What supplier information is most important in facilitating the purchasing decision? How effect- G. Dive has the Mountain Bell sales force been in providing such information? Specification of the Most Important Problems or Concerns Relating to Effective Hospital Management 1 .
What are the most important problems or concerns confronting you in managing the hospital? 2. What type of management data is required in order to deal effectively with these problems or concerns? . How are these data presently recorded, updated, and transmitted? How effective would you say your current information-retrieval system is? 4. Do you have any dollar amount specifically budgeted for data or telecommunications improvements in 2004-2005? What specific information or communication functions are you most interested in upgrading? Achieving Maximum Utilization of Hospital Facilities 1. Do you experience any problems in obtaining accurate, up-to-date information on the availability of bed space, operating rooms, or lab services? 2.Do you see hospitals as competing with other area hospitals or Homos in the provision of health-care services? If so, with which hospitals? Do you have a marketing plan to deal with this situation? Efficient Use of Labor Resources 1.
How variable is the typical daily departmental workload, and what factors most influence this variance? 2. How do you document and forecast workload fluctuations? Is this done for each hospital department? . To what extent (if any) do you use outside consulting firms to work with you in improving the delivery of hospital services?Reimbursement and Cash Flow 1. Which insurer is the primary provider of funds? How is reimbursement made by the major insurers? 2. What information do you need to verify the existence and type of insurance coverage when an individual is being processed for admission or outpatient hospital services? What, if any, problems are experienced in the verification and communication of insurance information? Source: This case was prepared by D. Asker CASE 8-2 U. S. Department of Energy (A) Judy Reason, the head of the windmill power section of the U.
S.Department of Energy, was considering what types of qualitative marketing research would be useful to address a host of research questions. The U. S. Department of Energy was formed to deal with the national energy problem. One of its goals was to encourage the development of a variety of energy sources, including the use of windmill power. One difficulty was that almost nothing was known about the current use of windmill power and the public reaction to it as a power source.
Before developing windmill power programs, it seemed prudent to address several search questions to obtain background information and to formulate testable hypotheses.Current Use of Windmills in the United States How many power-generating windmills are there? Who owns them? What power-generating performance is being achieved? What designs are being used? What applications are involved? Public Reaction What are the public attitudes to various power sources? How much premium would the public be willing to pay for windmill power sources, both in terms of money and in terms of "visual pollution? " What is the relative acceptance of six different windmill designs ranging from the "old Dutch windmill" design to an g-beater design?Assignment GE / aka mm/ cool Design one or more qualitative research designs to address the search questions and to develop hypotheses for future testing. If focus- group interviews are CASE 8-3 Accuracy Accuracy was introduced into the U. S. Luxury market in 1986 as a premium car at a bargain price, compared with European luxury imports. Given a $20,000 price tag, it became the best-selling premium import brand. As long as it could underwrite the competition, Sacra's sales were steady. In 1992, however, European luxury brands such as Mercedes, BMW, and Audio started slashing their prices, and the value of the Japanese yen rose.
Both factors combined to wipe out Sacra's "premium car at a bargain price" advantage. Another blow came when archival Toyota Motor Corp… And Ionians Motor Corp…
Launched the Lexus and Infinite, even more upscale brands, starting at $35,000. L. Campaign Time Accuracy did not anticipate the resurgence of the European luxury brands. Accuracy is strong in quality, dependability, and value, but it does not perform well in the luxurious, expensive-looking, and prestige departments.
However, as Accuracy discovered, customers want considered, provide a set of questions to guide the moderator. Reference plus status, prestige, comfort, and luxury. So far, Accuracy has struggled to Justify prices and convince buyers that the $40,000 maximum price on the Accuracy Legend will include those attributes.
In the desire to "retool its image," Accuracy replaced its performance-based ads with luxury ads, such as a campaign nicknamed "Channel ads," featuring mansions with cobblestone driveways and a towel-draped woman getting a massage in a gazebo. The tag line reads, "Some things are worth the price. " Competition has rebutted by claiming that their $13,000 Ultimate was "worth far more than the price. Included promotional tours with Cirque du Sole.
Buyers might be getting mixed signals. One-third of Sacra's regional budget is allocated to dealerships, which typically run hard-sell rather than image ads. Accuracy has also struggled to convince dealers to upgrade their showrooms to fit the luxury image. The line's well- established brand names, Legend and Integrate, will soon be replaced by bigger, more luxurious cars designed to compete with top-of-the-line, $50,000-plus Lexus and Infinite models.
Equipped with a smaller engine, RL model Accuracy cars will sell for $10,000 less. 35 II.Issues Luxury service and new luxury products will be required to win customers. Should Accuracy keep pouring dollars into he image campaign, or stick to performance and quality, its strengths? What do the consumers want? Design a format for a focus-group discussion to analyze this situation.
(Hint: Consider three formats: exploratory, clinical, experiencing. Will the prestige pitch work to rescue lagging sales? ) CASE 8-4 Exploratory Research on the Layton Hewitt National Visa Card The Layton Hewitt Credit Card In January 2002, Hewitt agreed to be featured on a new Visa credit card offered by the National Australia Bank.With the Layton Hewitt National Visa Card, the bank expected to capitalize not only on the popularity of this nouns player but also on the popularity of Australia's premier tennis event, the Australian Open. One of the salient features of the card was a low introductory interest rate of 6. 9 percent p. A for the first six months. Furthermore, cardholders could choose between the Standard National Visa Card and the Gold National Visa Card. The extensive market research conducted by the bank prior to the release of the credit card revealed a strong demand for such a product.
The research also indicated that the association of Layton Hewitt with the card would increase customer acquisition, card short-listed based on the information available about heir demographics and chirography's. The National Australia Bank, which over the previous 18 months had aggressively pursued a strategy of offering innovative products, believed that the Layton Hewitt National Visa Card was an example of an innovative lifestyle product. The Player Layton Hewitt, a top-class tennis player from Australia, stunned the world by defeating the reigning champion Pete Samaras to win the U.S. Open in 2001. His inherent talent was obvious when he beat his older and more experienced opponents at the tender age of 8. He won his first professional title in 1998 hen he was 17 years old.
He decided to discontinue his studies to pursue a full-time career in tennis. His victories, over top-seeded players such as Patrick Rafter, Pete Samaras, Gustavo Quarter, Alex Corrects, Magnum Norman, and many others during the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATOP) tour, established him as the number-one tennis player in the world.Unfortunately, however, Hewitt had to withdraw from the Human Cup in 2002 because he had chicken pox. The 2002 Australian Open was his comeback tournament after his recovery, but he was defeated by Alberta Martin in the early rounds. He attributed his early loss to the fact that he was still recovering from his illness and lacked energy. Source: This case is based on Larry Armstrong, "Accuracy: Stuck between Gears? ," Business Week, October 2, 1995, up. 136-137, and was prepared by V.
Kumar for classroom discussion. Questions for Discussion 2. 3.What types of demographic and cryptographic information are required for this study? How would you obtain it? Hewitt affect the attitude of prospective and current credit card holders of the bank? How would the company carry out marketing research to study this issue? Design the focus-group study and develop some eye questions that the interviewers can use to elicit the level of demand for the credit card. How would the demand for the credit card be forecasted? 4. How would Hewitt age, lifestyle, personal interests, and personality relate to those of the cardholders?How would you design a marketing research study to identify the demographic characteristics of the prospective cardholders and identify the future customer group? This case was prepared by the authors with inputs from "Layton Hewitt Serves up a Winner for the National," press release, http://www. National.
Com. AU, January 10, 2002. CASE 8-5 Hamilton Beach Conducts Primary Research in Mexico and Europe Hamilton Beach is well-known in the United States as a maker of small kitchen appliances like blenders, toasters, and mixers. However, the brand is not so familiar in other countries.
When the firm decided to expand into Europe and Mexico with a new product line, they wanted to assess the brand awareness in these markets. Based on the assumption that the Mexican consumer is slightly more prone to buying U. S. Products, the firm wanted to confirm that there was better brand awareness in Mexico. A mixture of qualitative and quantitative research techniques were used in Mexico. Through the study, the firm was looking to determine what features were to be included in the product and the retail environment through which they were going to sell.
They also wanted to find out the acceptance level for the brand and whether the features of the product fit in well with consumer needs. They found that the brand awareness was high in Mexico, and considering the proximity to the United States and the similar taste preferences due to exposure to the same types of products, they were optimistic in going ahead with the product launch. The initial results were promising and indicated success. European market. The research in Europe involved focus groups with the participants being asked to look at and touch the products.
After the participants had an opportunity to examine the products, they were asked to come back and talk about them in general, spontaneous terms. The discussion showed that European consumers were much more focused on design than American consumers. They seemed to like colors, rounded shapes, and good-looking appliances, especially those they plan to leave out on their kitchen counters. European consumers also did not appear to be as interested in product features.For example, while an American consumer perceives an 18-speed blender as definitely added value, the European consumer seemed to perceive it as confusing and therefore as something negative.
The research also highlighted the differences in how Hamilton Beach product designers and consumers define a product line. To the designers, uniformity of things like the color of knobs on the appliances and the fonts used in the instructions make a group of products into a product line. But European consumers felt product attributes like color and shape defined a product line. Hamilton Beach decided to change the whole
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BkiUd745qsNCPdwhgBvB | Why should you be a Christian?
I'm not asking to be polite. I really want to know. How are you doing?
Are you fulfilled in your life? Are you happy in your relationships? Are you content with the significance of your existence? Are you at peace with your past and confident in the future?
If you have no feeling at all that there is a problem in your life, a great problem, then there's not much point in reading this pamphlet. I'm not going to try to convince you that you have a problem. I believe that you do have one, and I'm going to identify it for you and provide a solution. But a doctor doesn't come to treat healthy people. So if you think you're healthy, then I'll bid you adieu. But I'll leave you with this thought- the time will come when the reality of this problem becomes undeniable to you. At that time, I hope you will remember what I said. Perhaps you should keep this pamphlet with you and read it again when that happens.
The problem you are experiencing at its heart is guilt. People are supposed to be a certain kind of thing, and it is all too apparent that we are not the kind of thing we are supposed to be. Why is that? A bird never fails to be a bird. A tree is always a tree. Sometimes some force from the outside like a bolt of lightning or a hunter's rifle prevents the tree or the bird from being what it is. But with people, it's different. It's not what is on the outside that causes us to fail to be what we are supposed to be. It's what is on the inside. We know we should not steal, yet we steal. We know we should be kind to other people, yet most of the time we care far more about ourselves than we do anyone else. We don't live up to even the moral principles we hold ourselves, and it's not because something else has forced us to. It's because there's something wrong inside of us. And we try to suppress the awareness of this very basic truth or to convince ourselves that it's other people's fault that we feel this way. But it's not anyone else's fault. It's our fault. People are special- different than birds or trees. We have souls. We are spiritual entities unlike birds or trees and were created in order to voluntarily give our love and praise to the God that made us. But a long time ago the first man decided that he would decide right and wrong for himself, live for himself and rebel against God's rule. And as a result, that man, Adam, and all of the human race after him, were separated from God and we all continue to live in Adam's rebellion.
At heart, guilt is an awareness of separation. When you were a kid and did something naughty and your parents were angry at you, you had this terrible feeling that your parents were now alienated from you, didn't love you anymore. The pain of a spanking didn't bother me all that much. I would routinely cause myself more pain than that just in the course of playing. When my parents would spank me, it was the feeling of disapproval, or worse- the idea that my parents simply didn't love me anymore- that was far more devastating than physical pain. That feeling would always pass soon, because I had loving parents who would reassure me of their love even when disciplining me. But the persistent feeling of guilt in our lives is the knowledge that we are alienated from God, that God is actually hostile to us. The desire to overcome this alienation is the reason people do most of what they do. Work, entertainment, religion and politics- all of it is so often pursued as different ways of either earning God's favor or distracting ourselves from the pain of His displeasure. But it will not go away. It cannot be ignored. And if we don't do something about it, it will kill us. God is the source of our life, and separation from Him will eventually destroy us.
The good news is, there is hope. God has provided a solution to the problem. Two thousand years ago, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, who is God Himself, to earth to become a human being in order to bridge this gap. He came and pronounced the hopelessness of ever earning favor with God by our works, the need we all therefore have for a savior who can rescue us, and the fact that Jesus Himself is that savior. The self-righteous religious authorities of the day, in envy and hatred of Jesus for His exposure of their hypocrisy, murdered Him by falsely accusing Him to the political authorities of the day, leading to His crucifixion. But Jesus had predicted that He would die, and that He would rise from the dead on the third day after He was crucified, and this is what happened. When He rose from the dead He told His disciples that His death was necessary for the salvation of sinners and that they were to go out into all the world and spread the good news of Jesus so that the whole world would know of this salvation. And thus the Christian church was born.
Jesus had to die because God is just. He will not simply ignore sin. Wickedness must be punished. But God's great mercy is seen in that He sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to voluntarily pay the price for our sins so that we could be reunited to God. When Jesus died on the cross He became a substitute for us and all the wrath of God against sin was poured out on Him. He said on the cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus, who was perfect and never sinned, felt the separation and guilt that we feel because of our sin. And the death that we deserve, He took in our place. When we believe what God has said, put our trust in the salvation of Jesus Christ, then we become part of the body of God's people on earth, the church, under the umbrella of Jesus' own perfect righteousness. And now God regards us not as individual wicked sinners, but as members of Jesus' people, and therefore beloved of God because Jesus is beloved of God.
So the Christian is freed from guilt. And when he is freed from guilt, he is also freed of all the self-destructive and evil thoughts and deeds that come from guilt, from the pain and despair of separation from God. With the love of God, we learn to love our fellow man, to love the creation that God has made, and to live our lives as God has intended.
This is all a process. Faith in Christ is just the beginning of the journey. Christians are still sinners, and hurt others and fail in many different ways. The journey can be quite painful at times. But it is the most rewarding thing any of us can do.
If you've stayed with me this long, and still think you'd rather stick with your old way of thinking, then the question I have for you is, "How's that worked out for you so far?" Is your life such a bang-up success that you can be confident rejecting this offer of rescue and salvation? Are you so secure in the meaning and purpose of your life that you feel content going back to your old way? Do you truly believe in your own ability to pull yourself up by your bootstraps? What in your own experience or in the history of the world gives you such confidence in man's ability to save himself?
But if it sounds like giving your life to Jesus is the way to go, then do it. And don't be half-hearted about it. It's all or nothing. Faith in Jesus means making a whole-hearted decision to believe what God has said. You don't have to understand everything right now. But you have to be committed to believing.
If you do believe what God has told you, then there are some important steps you need to take right now.
1. Pray to God, and tell Him what you have decided. He hears, and He has promised to answer every prayer prayed to Him in sincerity. He answers in lots of different ways, so be patient. But tell Him that you recognize your hopelessness, your guilt, and your need for a savior. Confess your sins, and ask for forgiveness. Tell Him that you accept His Son Jesus Christ as your savior, and pledge to make Jesus the Lord of your life.
2. Get into church. You need the support of like-minded people. A lone ranger is a dead ranger, and you need people in your life who will encourage and teach you to live your life for God. Find a church that believes and preaches the word of God, the Bible (unfortunately, not all churches do).
3. Get a Bible, and start reading it. It is God's message to mankind and contains everything you need to know. As a suggestion, start by getting acquainted with Jesus, in the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Then read 1 Peter or Ephesians to gain a great deal of instruction about Christian doctrine and life. Then just start reading from the beginning and go all the way through.
It is my great desire and prayer that more are added to the number of Christ's people. But don't wait forever. The guilt that I mentioned earlier is in fact God's warning to people that judgment is coming, and it could come at any time. Christ is coming again, and if you die or if Christ comes again before you have made this decision, then it is too late. Judgment has come, you have refused and rejected God's offer of salvation, and you will then receive the just penalty for your rebellion against the God that made you. I pray that you will instead receive the offered mercy, believe in Jesus Christ and live forever with Christ, and with all of Christ's people.
A very practical, pastoral, refreshing exhortation. I like it. I pray that many will listen and take heed.
God bless you, Matt. Essential, straightforward, honest and mature, without any trivia. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUaV7xK7Ehm79faRAK | Johan Bernhard Virgin (skrev sig till en början Vergin), född 1705, död 23 juni 1783 på Kvalsta, Östuna socken, Uppsala län, var en svensk fortifikationsofficer. Han var brorson till Bernhard Virgin.
Biografi
Virgin antogs som page vid hovet 1718, ingick i krigstjänst 1724 och antogs året därefter som volontär vid Fortifikationen, där han blev kapten 1741, major 1745, generalkvartermästarlöjtnant 1754 och överste 1759, då han någon tid även förvaltade direktörsämbetet. Han utnämndes till generalkvartermästare och direktör för Fortifikationen 1762 och blev 1768 generalmajor, men tog redan följande år avsked från krigstjänsten, sannolikt till följd av att Augustin Ehrensvärd, med vilken han aldrig kunnat dra jämnt, vid 1769 års riksdag återfick ledningen av de finländska fästningsbyggnaderna.
Virgin vann som fortifikationsofficer även europeisk ryktbarhet. Redan 1730 reste han utrikes och besåg då åtskilliga fästningar i Pommern, Preussen och Sachsen. Hemkommen, ingav han 1737 till riksens ständer ett projekt till Motala ströms kanalisering samt utarbetade sedermera förslag till Helsingfors befästande och finländska gränsens sättande i försvarstillstånd, till Landskronas och Kristianstads förstärkande, till hamnens i Simrishamn skyddande samt till strandverk vid Karlsvärd och till Slite hamns försvar i övrigt. År 1739 undersökte han den föreslagna "durchfarten" mellan Vättern och Söderköping. I finska kriget deltog han till juli 1742. Åren 1745-46 bevistade han kampanjerna i Brabant och Flandern, varunder han deltog i belägringarna av Dendermonde, Oostende, Nieuport, Antwerpen, Mons, Saint Gillain och Namur samt besåg sedan fästningarna i Nederländerna, Frankrike och vid nedre Rhen, i Holstein och Danmark. Han förordnades 1755 att uppgöra förslag till ett kastell vid Karlshamn.
Under sin tid som överste fungerade Virgin som pommerska fortifikationsbrigadens chef, och sedan han utnämnts till direktör för Fortifikationen, uppgjorde han förslag till åtskilliga fästningsbyggnader, särskilt vid Stralsund, samt var ett par år sysselsatt med avslutandet av militärkartan över Pommern (12 "regal ark" och omkring 500 specialritningar över städer och byar). Under hans direktörstid återkom såväl finländska som skånska fästningsbyggnaderna under Fortifikationens ledning, och han blev ledamot i båda de därför tillsatta kommissionerna. De finländska fästningsbyggnaderna skildes dock redan 1769 åter från Fortifikationen.
Efter avskedstagandet sysselsatte Virgin sig med att författa såväl ekonomiska som fortifìkatoriska skrifter och utgav 1781 sitt berömda arbete La défense des places, mise en équìlibre avec les attaques savantes et furieuses d'aujourd'hui, ett verk som var rikt på nya och genialiska idéer och som väckte ett välförtjänt uppseende inte minst utanför Sverige.
Havreförvandlingen
År utgav 1757 Virgin en broschyr med titeln "Rön och försök om en underbar sädesarternas förvandling". I denna skrift påstod han sig ha gjort den märkliga upptäckten att havreutsäde under vissa villkor gav en skörd av råg. En mängd personer gjorde om försöket och många uppgav sig ha lyckats, att döma åtminstone efter ett tjugotal insändare i tidningen Stockholms veckoblad under samma och följande år. Senare blev dock kritikerna dock allt fler. Kampen mellan troende och icke troende fortsatte i flera år och fördes inte enbart i tidningarna utan även i broschyrer, i ironiska "herdakväden" och andra visor.
Referenser
Noter
Svenska fortifikationsofficerare
Svenska generaler
Personer från Uppland
Födda 1705
Avlidna 1783
Män
Svenska militärer under 1700-talet | wikipedia | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUef7xK0zjCxN_ucqr | Arganzuela è uno dei distretti in cui è suddivisa la città di Madrid, in Spagna. Viene identificato col numero 2.
Geografia fisica
Il distretto si trova a sud del centro della città ed è delimitato a sud-ovest dal fiume Manzanarre.
Suddivisione
Il distretto è suddiviso amministrativamente in 7 quartieri (Barrios):
Atocha
Imperial
La Chopera
Las Acacias
Las Delicias
Legazpi
Palos de Moguer
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcYu6NNjgB0Ss1UMH | Jad Fair (9. lipnja 1954.), američki je gitarist i kantautor. Najveću je slavu stekao kao gitarist rock grupe Half Japanese. Ostvario je i aktivnu solo karijeru u kojoj je izdao 30 albuma kako samostalno.
Diskografija
The Zombies of Mora-Tau EP7 (UK Armageddon) 1980 (Press) 1982
Everyone Knew ... But Me (Press) 1982
Between Meals - Oh No I Just Knocked Over a Cup of Coffee (Iridescence) 1983
Monarchs (Iridescence) 1984
Best Wishes (Iridescence) 1987
Jad Fair & Kramer - Roll Out the Barrel (Shimmy-Disc) 1988
Great Expectations (Ger. Bad Alchemy) 1989
Attack of Everything no CD - Jad Fair (Paperback - 1990)
Coo Coo Rocking Time - Coo Coo Party Time (50 Skidillion Watts) 1990
Greater Expectations (Psycho Acoustic Sounds/T.E.C. Tones) 1991
Jad Fair EP - Jad Fair (LP Record - 1991)
Jad Fair and the Pastels - This Could Be the Night EP (UK Paperhouse) 1991
No. 2: Jad Fair and the Pastels (UK Paperhouse) 1992
I Like It When You Smile (UK Paperhouse) 1992
Workdogs in Hell - Workdogs in Hell (1993)
Jad & Nao - Half Robot (UK Paperhouse) 1993
Mosquito - Oh No Not Another Mosquito My House Is Full of Them! (Psycho Acoustic Sounds) 1993
Mosquito - Time Was (ERL/Smells Like) 1993 (Aus. Au-go-go) 1993
Mosquito - UFO Catcher (Japan. Time Bomb) 1993
Mosquito - Cupid's Fist (Hol. Red Note) 1994
Greater Expectations - Jad Fair (1995)
I Like It When You Smile - Jad Fair (1995)
Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair (1995) (50 Skidillion Watts) 1989
SPOOKY TALES: SPIRIT SUMMONING STORIES / SPOOKY SOUNDS OF NOW [boek & cd] - Jad Fair (1997)
Jason Willett/Jad Fair/Gilles Rieder (Megaphone) cd (1992)
Jason Willett & Jad Fair - It's All Good (Megaphone Limited) (1995) cd
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Honeybee (Dr Jim's) (1996) cd
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Punk Rock 1996 (Chlorophyl) (1996) 7"
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - The Corpse is Missing (Slab-O-Concrete) (1996) 7"
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - The Mighty Super-Heroes (Marginal Talent) cd (1997)
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Wonderful World (Shrimper) (1997) triple cassete
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Twister (Dark Beloved Cloud) (1997)lp
Jason Willett & Jad Fair - We're Going to the Moon (Megaphone Limited) cd (1998)
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Wild (Megaphone Limited) (1998) cd
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - The Mighty Hypnotic Eye (Dr Jim's) (1999) cd
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Enjoyable songs (Alternative tentacles) lp & cd (1999)
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - The Attack of Everything (Paperback + cd) (2002)
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - Superfine (public eyesore) (2005) cd
Jad & Nao - Half Alien (Japan. Sakura Wrechords) 1997
Jad Fair & Kramer - The Sound of Music: An Unfinished Symphony in 12 Parts (Shimmy-Disc/Knitting Factory) 1998
26 Monster Songs for Children - Jad Fair & David (1998)
Roll Out The Barrel (1999) Jad Fair & Kramer
I Like Your Face - Jad Fair & Shapir-O'Rama (1999)
Jad Fair & Jason Willett - The Mighty Super-Heroes, Marginal Talent (MT-426)
Monsters, Lullabies, and the Occasional Flying Saucer (1996) Jad Fair & Phono-Comb, (Can. Shake)
Jad & David Fair - Best Friends (UK Vesuvius) 1996
Jad Fair & The Shapir-O'Rama - We Are the Rage (Japan. Avant) 1996
Jackpot, Songs and Art - Jad Fair (Paperback, 1997)
Strange But True (1998) Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo
The Sound of Music (1999) Jad Fair & Kramer
The Lucky Sperms - Somewhat Humorous (Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston), 2001
It's Spooky (1989) met Daniel Johnston 2001
Strobe Talbot - 20 Pop Songs, alternative tentacles, (Jad Fair, Mick Hobbs, Benb Gallaher) 2001
Words Of Wisdom And Hope (2002) Teenage Fanclub
We Are the Rage - Jad Fair & the Shapir-O Rama (2002)
Six Dozen Cookies - Jad & David Fair (2006)
FairMoore - Steve Moore & Jad Fair (2006)
Yuri Landman Ensemble feat. Jad Fair & Philippe Petit – That's Right Go Cats, 2012, (CD Thick Syrup Records, LP Siluh Records)
7"
Making of the album
Arts & Crafts Series Vol. 1
Doc
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (DVD - Sep 19, 2006)
Biografija
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 - Michael Azerrad (Paperback - 2002)
Izvori
Pisani izvori
bio Allmusic
Vanjske poveznice
Službena stranica
Američki glazbenici
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BkiUeAPxK7Dgs_aSVFT1 | A pickup driver ploughed a truck into cyclists and pedestrians in New York on Tuesday, killing eight people in the first deadly "act of terror" in the city since September 11, 2001.
Vehicles have previously been used as weapons of terror, often by supporters of the Islamic State (IS) group, attacking nations in the US-led coalition fighting the jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
On August 17, a driver deliberately runs a van into crowds on Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas Boulevard, in what police say is a "terrorist attack".
It is followed hours later by a car attack in the seaside resort town of Cambrils.
Fifteen people are killed in the carnage.
All members of the terror cell behind the attacks are either killed or arrested by Spanish police.
On August 12, at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a 32-year-old woman is killed and others injured when a car rammed, deliberately according to eyewitnesses, into a crowd of counter-protesters.
On March 22, 2017, a 52-year-old British convert to Islam, Khalid Masood, mows down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge near parliament and stabs a policeman, killing five people and injuring around 50 before being shot dead by police. The attack is claimed by IS.
On June 3, the British capital is hit again when three attackers strike pedestrians with a van and go on a stabbing spree wearing fake suicide vests in bars in the London Bridge area. Eight people are killed before the assailants are shot dead by police. The attack is also claimed by IS.
On June 19, a van drives into a crowd of Muslim worshippers near a mosque in London's Finsbury Park area. One man dies and another 11 people are injured. A 47-year-old man is arrested and charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.
On July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, ploughs a 19-tonne truck into a Bastille Day crowd, killing 86 people on the famous beachfront avenue.
IS later claims Bouhlel as one of its followers.
- On June 19, 2017, Adam Dzaziri, a 31-year-old who had sworn allegiance to the IS, is killed when he rams a car loaded with guns and a gas canister into a police van on Paris's Champs-Elysees. No one else is injured.
- On August 19, 2017, a 36-year-old Algerian man, named as Hamou B., drives a BMW into a group of soldiers outside a barracks in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, injuring six. After a car chase, police shoot and wound the suspect.
An April 7, 2017, a truck attack in the Swedish capital kills five people, including an 11-year-old Swedish girl, a Briton, and one Belgian. Fifteen others are injured.
An Uzbek national, Rakhmat Akilov, 39, confesses to using a stolen beer truck to mow down pedestrians on Stockholm's busiest shopping street Drottninggatan. According to Uzbek police, he had tried to join IS in 2015.
On December 19, 2016, Tunisian national Anis Amri, 24, hijacks a truck and slams into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 48.
Amri is shot dead by Italian police in Milan four days later after travelling through several European countries. IS claims responsibility. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdOM4uzlhjV1b1dKG | A group of scientists has recently made a shocking discovery. They studied a tribe from Melanesia and they realised that all people belonging to that tribe have genes that are not found in other people. Their genes does not belong to human. Scientists said that their genes belongs to unknown species of hominid. Do you think this will prove that their ancestors are actually the famous Anunnaki?
Melanesia is an area in South Pacific that encloses Papua New Guinea, and the islands close to it. Geneticists studied this people and saw this strange thing: Their DNA is unique on our planet. It seems that they are not Neanderthal or Denisovan like we usually are. Their ancestors seems to be aliens that live in Nibiru (the twelfth plant in our solar system). This planet approached planet Earth, about 500 000 years BC, and they sent space ships to Earth.
They could also be the "gods" from our history. And some theories states that humans could be created by the Anunnaki in a genetic experiment. We are a hybrid between monkey and anunnaki. This is why we carry unknown genes. That genes represent our legacy from our anunnaki ancestors. Maybe they used genetic manipulation and in-vitro fertilization in order to create us. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUbbY5qoYDgYgh4Ljj | Willem Lambertus Vos (born August 30, 1964, Amstelveen) is a Dutch scientist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of Twente and former group leader at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics "AMOLF" In 2004, with his group members, Peter Lodahl et al. they succeeded in controlling the pace of light emission, varying from a light drizzle to a rainstorm. In the process, the team has verified a 1987 prediction of American physicist Eli Yablonovitch that ignited a worldwide rush to build tiny "chips" that control light beams. The achievement of Dr. Lodahl and a team of physicists and chemists was reported on in Nature (430). Researchers say it has many potential uses, not only as a tool for controlling quantum optical systems, but also in efficient miniature lasers for display devices and telecommunications, in solar cells, and even in future quantum computers.
External links
Homepage of Willem Vos
1964 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch physicists
People from Amstelveen
Academic staff of the University of Twente | wikipedia | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
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Thousands of Canadian students to sing Oscar Peterson civil rights anthem for Music Monday 2019
Posted April 29, 2019 by Bram Gonshor
Photo Credit: Coalition for Music Education in Canada
On Monday, May 6th, The Coalition for Music Education in Canada will celebrate its 15th anniversary of Music Monday with thousands of students, teachers, musicians, music lovers, and parents across the country. This year, Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson's 1963 composition "Hymn To Freedom," written during the Civil Rights Movement, will be this year's anthem.
With music by Oscar Peterson and lyrics by Harriette Hamilton, the iconic "Hymn To Freedom" exemplifies a deep desire for respect and equality among all people living in Canada, united as a peaceful nation. The official Music Monday video, featuring a new bilingual arrangement, is available to watch below, while an Oscar Peterson learning resource has also been made available by the Coalition for teachers to review with their students ahead of next Monday's sing-a-long.
The Coalition for Music Education in Canada was established in 1992 to raise awareness and understanding of the role that music education plays in Canadian culture and to promote the benefits that music education brings to young people. Leading up to next week's celebration, the Coalition has also launched a fundraising campaign to support the future of Music Monday and develop new and updated advocacy materials.
Beginning at 12pm EST, Ottawa's National Arts Centre will livestream their celebration on Music Monday's Facebook page, which will include a massed children's choir of over 350 youth from 10 local schools under the direction of Jackie Hawley, who will lead the sing-along of "Hymn To Freedom."
Register your school or community organization's music program today, and join the thousands of Canadians from coast-to-coast next Monday in singing #TogetherInHarmony.
Categories: Music Education
Tags: Coalition for Music Education, music education, Music Monday, National Arts Centre, Oscar Peterson
Canadians will sing together for 13 Annual Music Monday in support of music education
Students perform outside at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square for Music Monday 2016 (Photo: Bram Gonshor)
Thousands of students, musicians, parents, and community members from Charlottetown to Vancouver will come together next Monday to celebrate the 13th Annual Music Monday to raise awareness for music education. Created by the Coalition for Music Education, Music Monday will bring the nation together for the simultaneous singing of the Music Monday anthem, Sing It Together, 12:30pm EST on Monday, May 1, 2017.
Honouring Canada 150, this year's National Showcase Concert will take place in Ottawa with a free concert at the National Arts Centre hosted by MP Seamus O'Regan and opera singer Measha Brueggergosman. The event will be live-streamed at MusicMonday.ca from 12-1pm EST.
Showcase Concert performances include a mass children's choir, the Métis Fiddle Quartet, singer-songwriter Mimi O'Bonsawin, a harp and soprano duo, youth jazz and strings ensembles, and the Ottawa Junior Youth Orchestra. Songwriter Marc Jordan, musicians from the official Music Monday video, and the children's choir will also lead the nationwide sing-along of Sing It Together.
Sing It Together was commissioned by the Coalition for Music Education and features Inuit throat singing, Métis fiddling, Indigenous drumming, and children's choirs in celebration of Canadian diverse and vibrant musical heritage.
Events are scheduled in communities across Canada, and participants are encouraged to join the conversation using the hashtag #MMC2C2C.
Categories: Industry News, Uncategorized
Tags: Canada 150, Coalition for Music Education, Music Monday
Music Monday to celebrate Canada's 150th Anniversary with new anthem in support of music education
Posted January 13, 2017 by Quentin Burgess
On Monday, May 1, 2017, the Coalition for Music Education will celebrate Music Monday with a cross-country sing-along to raise awareness for music education. The annual event celebrates the unifying power of music as thousands of Canadians join in singing and performing the Music Monday anthem at their schools and other community centres.
This year, inspired by Canada's 150th anniversary, the Music Monday sing-along will be led by a live-streamed showcase from the nation's capital. In recognition of the sesquicentennial year, the 2017 Music Monday anthem will celebrate Canada's musical heritage in its lyrics and instrumentation. The anthem, titled Sing It Together, focuses on the power of voices, and "asks us to sing for joy, for truth, for healing, and for freedom," explains the event press release. The recording features Inuit throat singing, Métis fiddling, Indigenous drumming, and children's choirs in celebration of Canadian musical heritages.
Sing It Together was co-written by JUNO Award winners Marc Jordan and Ian Thomas, and was recorded at Canterbury Music in Toronto, with additional layers recorded at Ottawa's Audio Valley Recording Studio, and Hamilton's St. James Anglican Church.
"Music is the landscape of Canada," said Marc Jordan. "We hope it will be a song that illuminates the mosaic of music and cultures that thrive in every corner of the country."
To join the Canada-wide chorus of students and community groups in singing and performing the song on Music Monday, visit the Get Involved section of the Music Monday website. Arrangements, audio-visual learning tools, and lyrics in several languages will be made available on the website ahead of the event.
Categories: Advocacy, Industry News, Music Education, News Release
Tags: Coalition for Music Education, Ian Thomas, Marc Jordan, Music Makes Us, Music Monday
Music Monday to host nationwide sing-a-long and Toronto youth rally May 2
On Monday May 2, 2016, thousands of students from coast to coast will come together to participate in Music Monday and celebrate the impact music education has on our lives. The nationwide event will begin when schools open on the Eastern shores of Newfoundland, moving across the country to closing school bells by the Western shores of British Columbia. At 12:30 PM EST, students will join in on the official singing of the Music Monday Anthem, "We Are One."
Beginning at Noon ET, student supporters and Coalition For Music Education's Youth4Music ambassadors will gather outside Toronto City Hall at Nathan Phillips Square for the Toronto Lives Music rally and showcase concert, hosted by Céline Peterson. Toronto Mayor John Tory, entertainers Sharon & Bram, and JUNO-nominee Scott Helman will be in attendance for the rally, which will also feature performances from Canadian Brass, Melanie Doane & The Uschool, Dijah SB, Charlotte Siegel, and more.
The Coalition For Music Education will also be presenting the NUFSICISUM Youth Leadership Awards at the rally, which are given to students who have made a special positive impact in their school music program.
In 2013, retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield helped lead a nationwide sing-a-long of his Music Monday anthem "I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)," co-written by Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies, aboard the International Space Station. Following a nationwide search in 2014, Bolton, Ontario's Connor Ross penned his winning anthem "We Are One," which will be performed again in 2016 across Canada.
Participants are encouraged to use the hashtag #MMC2C to share their Music Monday experiences, and can find the links to the nationwide rally and sing-a-long webcasts beginning Monday morning on the Music Monday website.
Tags: Chris Hadifled, Coalition for Music Education, Connor Ross, John Tory, music education, Music Monday, Scott Helman, Youth4Music
Deadlines Approaching For Music Monday Youth Opportunities
Music Monday is almost upon us! On May 4, 2015, youth across Canada will unite in song at the same time to celebrate music in our lives and communities. This year's song is "We Are One" by 16 year-old singer/songwriter Connor Ross – winner of the Music Monday Anthem Search.
During the Music Monday broadcast, winners of the NUFSICISUM Award, which awards students who have made a significant difference for their music program, will be announced. The deadline for submissions is April 27.
Music Monday is also recruiting students interested in becoming Roving Reporters for the nation-wide event. The role involves chronicling their school and/or community's participation in Music Monday through articles and social media activity. This is an official approved role with the Coalition for Music Education in Canada as part of our Youth4Music program and is perfect for students who have an interest in communications, journalism, photography or videography.
Youth4Music are gathering a groundswell of youth support to make a difference for music in their schools and communities. Each special Music Monday performance on the live webcast will be hosted by a youth leader.
Tags: MMWeAreOne, Music Monday, NUFSICISUM Award, Youth4Music
Chris Hadfield & Bramwell Tovey lead nationwide singalong for Music Monday 10th Anniversary
Posted May 6, 2014 by Bram Gonshor
On Monday May 5, 2014, students from coast to coast took part in the 10th Anniversary of Music Monday, an annual event that brings together thousands of children, musicians, parents and community members to celebrate the gift of music in our lives. Launched by the Coalition For Music Education in 2005, Music Monday unites communities and schools across Canada by singing one piece of music on the same day at the same time.
Beginning in Gander, NL with co-hosts Jessie Downey and Liam Dawson, the Music Monday webcast brought participants to various towns and schools across Canada to watch their unique individual performances.
During Toronto, ON's festivities at the Ontario Science Centre, Music Canada's Amy Terrill, VP Public Affairs, provided remarks calling for a commitment to a developing a national music education strategy, which can be viewed below:
In a statement in the House Of Commons on May 5, MP Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP) emphasized that music education "helps young people to see the world in a broader way" and "access to a music education should not be left to just luck and chance." Cash's full statement can be viewed here.
MP Rick Dykstra (St. Catherines, CPC) also spoke, stating, "I invite everyone to tune in and enjoy this great day as we celebrate the impact of music on Canada and the impact Canadian music has on the world." Dykstra's full statement can be seen here.
At around 12:55 PM EST, participants sang along with Astronaut Chris Hadfield in Edmonton and Maestro Bramwell Tovey in Vancouver to "I.S.S (Is Somebody Singing)", a song penned by Hadfield for last year's event.
The song's co-writer, Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies, appeared from Tuscany to announce next year's event in Montreal, QC. Robertson also announced that next year, in partnership with the SOCAN, Music Monday is inviting any interested Canadians to submit their song ideas for 2015.
Using the hashtag #MM10, participants shared photos of their Music Monday experiences via Twitter and Facebook. A collection of tweets can be seen below:
Singing along with @BramwellTovey, @Cmdr_Hadfield and all of Canada, courtesy of @MemorialU fantastic webcast. #MM10 pic.twitter.com/swtX40rf4Q
— Music Canada (@Music_Canada) May 5, 2014
The human piano is now happening at #MM10. #science #conductivity pic.twitter.com/0eC7E2TtYZ
— OntarioScienceCentre (@OntScienceCtr) May 5, 2014
Harbour View students singing the Harbour View song to open Music Monday! pic.twitter.com/q62nL5LvIT
— HRSB (@HRSB_Official) May 5, 2014
Adrienne Carr, Deputy Mayor of Vancouver proclaiming May 5th Music Monday! Did you know she has ARCT in piano? #MM10 pic.twitter.com/FWv6gFmBK5
— CMEBC (@cmebc) May 5, 2014
Categories: Advocacy, Music Education
Tags: Bramwell Tovey, Chris Hadfield, Coalition for Music Education, Music Monday
Music Monday 2014: On May 5th, join the Canada-wide celebration of music in our lives & schools
Posted April 11, 2014 by Quentin Burgess
On Monday, May 5, 2014, join the Canada-wide celebration of music when schools and communities from coast to coast unite in singing and performing the Music Monday theme song 'I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing.' This year, Music Monday celebrates its 10th anniversary with a live webcast of simultaneous events happening across the country, concluding with a synchronized performance of 'I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing' with former Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and Maestro Bramwell Tovey of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Music Monday is an initiative of Music Makes Us: Coalition for Music Education, a national advocacy organization promoting quality music education for all young people. The annual event takes place on the first Monday in May, with the goal of celebrating the galvanizing power of music in Canada and demonstrating how that power is rooted in school music programs. Each year, hundreds of thousands of Canadians take part in the event through their schools and communities; last year's event engaged approximately one million people in Canada and abroad.
The Coalition for Music Education expects this year's Music Monday to have record numbers of participants, with confirmed events happening in St. John's, NL, Halifax, NS, Charlottetown, PEI, Toronto, ON, Winnipeg, MB, Edmonton, AB, Vancouver, BC, Whitehorse, YT, Ottawa, ON, Montreal, QC, and more cities and towns across Canada.
To get involved with Music Monday, download the Participation Toolkit, and register your event online. To find an event happening in your area, search the Music Monday Map, which already dotted with events from coast to coast.
To prepare for sing-along, download the arrangements for 'ISS – Is Somebody Singing': there are vocal lead sheets as well as scores for bands, drumlines, ensembles, guitar, steel pans, strings, and much more. There are also translations available for the song in eleven different languages, including American Sign Language, Cree, Dutch, French, Gaelic, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, Ojibway, Russian, and Spanish.
The Coalition for Music Education is also looking for youth reporters to cover Music Monday 2014, and has launched a new essay contest to find thirteen students from across Canada, who will represent their province as a Music Monday Roving Youth Reporter and be given the opportunity to interview a prominent Canadian on the subject of music and music education.
In the above video, Commander Hadfield articulates why music education is so important:
"I bought my first record at about nine or ten years old, and listening to music introduced me to cultures and people who were different than I was. And learning to play the guitar taught me to improvise and to be creative, and to be able to be play with a group. And practicing on that guitar, that taught me self-discipline. And these were all fundamental skills that I have used throughout my career. And that's why I can confidently say that music helped me be a better astronaut."
Music education is a key priority of Music Canada as one of our five strategies in The Next Big Bang report, which recommends that given the strong evidence that music education prepares workers who are more creative, better problem-solvers, and possess soft skills that are critical in the digital economy, as well as the correlation between music scenes and tech clusters, governments should invest more in music education and should consider music scenes as a tool for economic development.
For more information on Music Monday, visit http://www.musicmonday.ca/, and connect with them on Facebook and Twitter for future updates.
Tags: Chris Hadfield, Music Monday
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Corals are crucial to the marine ecosystem, but are threatened by pollution and climate change.
By Laura Baisas | Published Dec 6, 2022 4:00 PM
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Color is one of the most distinguishing features of a coral reef. Corals are colorful primarily due to the pigments produced by the proteins inside of the coral, that reflect a variety of light. They then absorb one color of light, which then determines what color they appear to be. Brilliant hues might also help save the world's threatened reefs. A study published today in the open access journal PLOS Biology, describes a new low-cost staining method that uses color to help scientists track coral larvae as they disperse and eventually settle in coral reefs.
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Representative images of free-swimming and newly metamorphosed larvae (Nile blue, unstained, neutral red) from Acropora anthocercis, Platygyra sinensis, Coelastrea aspera, and mixed Nile blue and neutral red stained Dipsastraea favus larvae. CREDIT: Doropoulos C and Roff G, 2022, PLOS Biology
However, testing in a lab is more like testing in a fish tank compared to the open ocean. To test this technique in the field, the team used eggs from wild spawning corals on the Great Barrier Reef and cultured them in larval pools in the Lizard Island Lagoon off the northeastern coast of Australia. They stained 10,000 larvae with the Nile blue dye and detected successful settlement of stained larvae on some of the tiles placed in the lagoon.
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"We have developed a novel method for colouring large numbers of coral larvae (millions to billions)," said Christopher Doropoulos, a marine ecologist with CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, and a co-author of the study, in a statement. "Our method allows for immediate differentiation and visual tracking of coral larvae from dispersal to settlement, and will facilitate a wide range of de novo studies of larval behaviour and ecology." Doropoulos co-wrote the study with George Roff, also a marine ecologist at CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Australia's largest government-supported science research agency.
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by Jeff Bloodworth
Jeff Bloodworth is a Professor of History and Co-Director at the School of Public Service & Global Affairs at Gannon University.
Democrats are justifiably nervous about the 2020 election. A strong economy and stubbornly loyal Republican base render an otherwise vulnerable incumbent into a perilous opponent. A brawling counter-puncher, Donald Trump's political spirit animal might very well be the wily and oddly vicious raccoon. When cornered raccoons attack their predator's eyes. Once their prey is blinded, they penetrate the chest wall, collapse the lungs, and infiltrate the abdomen cavity. Septic peritonitis and massive organ failure ensue, followed by death. Politically trapped on infinite occasions, Trump has veritably raccooned our institutions, norms, and the body politic. Our national septic shock proves the adage of The Wire's Omar Little, "[When] you come at the King, you best not miss."
America simply cannot afford a second Trump term. Democrats, however, get one shot at nominating a candidate capable of assembling a coalition and driving turnout sufficient to defeat the president and drive a nail into the Trumpist coffin. Happily, a spate of polls reveal that Democratic primary voters prize electability more than issue agreement. Pragmatic and hungry to defeat Trump, Democrats should understand "electability" in its fullest historical sense. The preceding century of Democratic presidential politicking reveals that "electability" is not milquetoast, split the difference centrism. Historically, Democrats win when they adhere to a grand unifying theory (GUT). According to this principle, Democrats win when they nominate a political cipher and a cultural chameleon who possesses a preternatural charisma that can appeal to and energize a diverse set of voters.
The political party of the underdog and ethnic, racial, and social minorities has always lacked the cultural cohesion that the Republican's possess. Consequently, successful Democratic nominees have been ideologically vague, comfortable in a variety of cultural settings, and exceptionally charismatic. In the first three quarters of the twentieth century, the party's primary fault line lay between its rural, white Protestant and ethnically diverse urban wings. Unable to close that divide, rural America's champion, William Jennings Bryan, lost three presidential races, 1896, 1900, & 1908. Poised for a fourth bite at the apple in 1912, party bosses intervened and accidentally discovered a template for the future in Woodrow Wilson.
A mere two years into the first political office of his entire life, Wilson entered the presidential fray. Previous to this, both parties had almost always tapped party elders or retired generals as their presidential nominee. Possessing neither, Wilson did enjoy the unique biography and blank slate necessary to unify a fractious party. Virginia-born, he was Southern and agrarian enough to satisfy rural voters. His stint as governor of New Jersey meant he was not a typical Solid South politico. Finally, his newfound Progressivism put him in accord with the educated middle class and erstwhile populists. A master political orator, Wilson's charisma helped bind a diverse coalition to him. A political Rorschach test, rural and urban Democrats, Progressives, and old-time Populists saw what they wanted in Wilson. Facing a divided GOP in a fractured four-way race, Wilson took 435 out of 531 electoral votes in a landslide victory.
A generation hence, Wilson's precarious coalition had come apart. In three consecutive presidential races, 1920-1928, Democrats had earned more than forty-percent of the vote just once. Convalescing from polio, Franklin Roosevelt had avoided the foul taint and culture wars of the Democrat's wilderness years. A compromise candidate, Roosevelt's rural, upstate New York background, and adopted Warms Springs, Georgia home made him palatable to Southerners and rural voters. Likewise, his Northern upbringing and Progressive leadership in New York rendered him acceptable to urban Democrats. Campaigning on an ill-defined New Deal platform, FDR avoided unnecessary offense to party constituencies and took White House in 1932. His uncanny charm and gift for building an intimate connection with voters via his radio Fireside Chats resulted in the New Deal coalition. Comprised of white Southerners, farmers, the urban North, African Americans, and liberal intellectuals, the coalition endured for half a century; the GUT, nevertheless, remained necessary to maintain this ungainly assemblage.
In the decades following FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ were the sole exemptions to the GUT. In these cases, the exceptions prove the rule. Assuming the presidency upon the deaths of FDR and JFK, Truman and Johnson each won election in their own right. Rural Democrats who lacked public charisma and saddled with long records on national issues, the duo earned the ire of pieces and parts of the coalition's diverse constituencies. Their unpopularity caused both to refuse a run for a second full-term and the election of GOP successors.
The Truman & Johnson example reveal just how much postwar Democrats struggled to keep their diverse coalition together. Understanding this, party leaders looked to the 1960 election with concern. With LBJ too Southern, Hubert Humphrey too liberal, Adlai Stevenson too much the loser and all saddled with long records, Democrats searched for a political Goldilocks. Equipped with an ambiguous ideology, few legislative accomplishments, and charisma to burn, JFK fit the cipher (and GUT) bill. Sixteen years later, the social issues of race, crime, and the culture wars had split the party yet again. It was left to a Bob Dylan-quoting, Sunday School-teaching, nuclear-engineer-cum-peanut-farmer to bridge these divides. With feet, big toes, and a pinky in every nook and cranny of the Roosevelt coalition, the obscure one-term governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, would be the final Democrat to bring New York and Mississippi into the same column.
With the Roosevelt coalition undone, Democrats were left with the so-called McGovern coalition. Amultiracial, multiethnic, cross-class assemblage of African Americans, Latinos, women, college students, professionals, and economically populist working-class whites, this assemblage of misfit toys presented familiar challenges. A product of the rural South and the Ivy League, Bill Clinton's gubernatorial service helped him avoid the sticky wicket of controversial national issues. Whip smart, elite educated, and charismatic his wonky explications on policy, done in a Southern drawl, and moderate stance on social issues enabled him to speak to a multiplicity of audiences.
Like Clinton, Barack Obama also inhabited and felt at home in a variety of cultural worlds. The product of a Kansas-born mother and Kenyan father who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, he instinctively knew how to speak to diverse audiences. Moreover, his thin national resume meant he avoided the political crevasses that crisscross his party. Equipped with charm and electrifying rhetorical gifts, Obama literally embodies the GUT. Indeed, the GUT is the lone connecting thread that connects a white supremacist, Woodrow Wilson, to Barack Obama, and most every Democratic president of the twentieth century. As the GUT reveals "electability" lies not so much in centrist policy as it does in coalescing and energizing a diverse, majority coalition.
To be sure, successful Democratic nominees have proffered mainstream, center-left policy proposals. Maximalist policy proposals and ideological rigidity do not unite diverse coalitions. But a Democratic GUT-check reveals that "electability" is not simply a checklist of centrist policy proposals. For those searching for the most viable Democratic challenger, history shows that the candidate with a thin national resume, charisma, and an aptitude for navigating a variety of cultural contexts possesses the resume for victory. | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUa2nxK7Dgs_cY3u0l | Welcome to Sophia Lillis Fan, the latest online resource dedicated to the talented actress Sophia Lillis. Sophia has been in films like "It", "It Chapter Two", "Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase", "Gretel and Hansel" and "Uncle Frank". She played the younger version of Amy Adams in "Sharp Objects" and she's playing Sydney, the lead role, in the Netflix show "I Am Not Okay with This". This site is online to show our support to the actress Sophia Lillis, as well as giving her fans a chance to get the latest news and images.
February 9th, 2020 by Veronique
'The Thicket': Sophia Lillis, Noomi Rapace & Charlie Plummer Join Peter Dinklage In Thriller
Sophia Lillis (It), Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) and Charlie Plummer (Looking For Alaska) are joining Peter Dinklage (Game Of Thrones) in thriller The Thicket.
Currently in pre-production, the film is based on the novel by author Joe R. Lansdale, with a script by Chris Kelley, and will be directed by Elliott Lester (Nightingale).
The story follows an innocent young man named Jack ( Plummer) who goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister (Lillis) after she is kidnapped by violent killer "Cut Throat Bill" (Rapace) and her gang. Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones (Dinklage), a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The three track the girl into the deadly no-man's land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.
Producing are Giannia Nunnari of Hollywood Gang (300), Dinklage and David Ginsberg of Estuary Films (Think We're Alone Now), Matt Hookings of Camelot Films (The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica), Shannon Gaulding (The Domestics), and Andre L III of MiLu Entertainment.
The Exchange will be shopping the movie at the upcoming EFM. CAA Media finance and ICM Partners are co-repping domestic.
Costume design is being handled by Oscar-winner Julie Weiss (Frida) with Galo Olivares (Roma) serving as director of photography and score is being overseen by Ray Suen of Childish Gambino.
"We are thrilled to bring this strong commercial project with an amazing ensemble cast to Berlin", said O'Shea of the Exchange. "Rapace and Dinklage are global stars in their own right, but to also have up and coming talent as Lillis and Plummer in The Thicket makes the project truly exciting."
Lillis is represented by Untitled Entertainment, CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein, Rapace by Stella Hernström, CAA and Hirsh Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman, Plummer by Luber Roklin Entertainment, Zoom Talent Management, CAA and Peikoff Mahan Law Office.
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Release Date: 31 January 2020 (USA)
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
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Release Date: 26 February 2020 (Netflix)
Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.
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In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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BkiUdD_xK6Ot9V_E3xFV | Can we get the 1.9 updated to 2.0?
That's the new link and it seems to be working fine for me.
Ah, sorry linked the wrong thing.
I only see the 1.9 package though on the package site.
Interesting, we can try to build a test package tomorrow if you want. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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BkiUd3k5qYVBjUFKb0_j | Hi, Welcome to the job board page for Darwin and Alice Springs and the surrounding areas of the Northern Territory. This page is dedicated to helping Backpackers and travellers find work in and around the major cities of Darwin and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, jobs in Mining, Tele Sales, factory work, office work, IT work etc and work in the surrounding areas like Palmerston and Litchfield where you may find a job on the farms and in the tourism industry. We will try and cover all sorts of casual jobs that will help you while travelling around Australia. Many backpackers come to Darwin in the winter season looking for jobs and many never find them it's not easy and with the economy and new laws the government are looking at bringing in, it's not helping but the jobs are out there. If you want to work you may have to do a bit of research and even go door knocking, sometimes this is the easiest way to find a job especially in the pubs and restaurants in and around the city centres.
The Jobs Board will be updated as the jobs come online. A lot of the jobs do get taken before we get a chance to add sometimes especially in the busy season May-July. Backpackers and travellers please if you have any suggestions for the site or where there is work for fellow travellers, then please let us know this will help us and other backpackers find a job. We are only a small company and rely heavily on word of mouth. Employers if you are looking for permanent or casual working holiday makers for seasonal work in your company then please email us at Workstay or go to our contact pageand send your details.
Darwin was established as a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin in 1869 and was called Palmerston the government changed it to Darwin in 1911 and is now one of the fastest growing capitals in Australia. Darwin has grown from a pioneer outpost and small port into one of Australia's most modern and multicultural cities. Darwin has been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Darwin's main industries are Tourism and Mining. So if you are looking for work in Darwin and surrounding area you should be able to find something that suits you.
Darwin has a population of around 140.000.
Latest news on jobs and travel around the Northern Territory. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
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Harvard Kennedy School and the Carr Center are in a unique position to be able to convene scholars, practitioners, public intellectuals, government officials, journalists, and policy experts from around the world. Recent visitors to the Carr Center have included the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a political prisoner from Venezuela, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a survivor of trafficking by ISIS.
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BkiUf58241xiO5MUMffP | Flow cytometric analysis of SK-MEL-2 (blue) and SH-SY5Y (green) cells using PKCα (D7E6E) Rabbit mAb (PE Conjugate).
PKCα (D7E6E) Rabbit mAb (PE Conjugate) recognizes endogenous levels of total PKCα protein.
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues surrounding Val664 of human PKCα protein.
This Cell Signaling Technology antibody is conjugated to phycoerythrin (PE) and tested in-house for direct flow cytometry analysis in human cells. This antibody is expected to exhibit the same species cross-reactivity as the unconjugated PKCα (D7E6E) Rabbit mAb #59754. | c4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdu04dbghU_Qx7WlY | PDFCreator 3.4 brings you a new progressive and interactive way of handling PDF files.
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Our new "PDFCreator Online" lets you merge PDF files, convert Office files to PDF, and images to PDF in your browser.
Some users are currently facing an error when launching PDFCreator. While determining the printer ports, an unexpected NullReferenceException occurs. Affected are systems with components that use the Vfpmu.dll like the Telekom NetPhone client. This bug will be fixed with the release of all PDFCreator 3.3.2 editions and PDFCreator Server 2.0.2.
PDFCreator Server 2.0 brings a completely redesigned user interface. The main focus was to make it much easier to find functionality and to make configuring the application as easy as possible. A few larger features were added, i.e. the live monitoring and the C# script action, but we also made a lot of other improvements.
Since the beginning of May, we have seen an increasing number of one error type (called TaskCanceledException) across all versions of PDFCreator since the 2.x versions. As these versions have worked for years without this error, it seems that this is caused by a bug in the .Net framework that was introduced with a Windows update. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUc8DxK0zjCxN_s9K6 | Mechanicville, NY – February 4, 2019 – DeCrescente Distributing Company (DDC) and Shmaltz Brewing Company are excited to announce that DDC has become the exclusive distributor of Shmaltz's award-winning core beers as well as their coveted special releases throughout the Capital Region. Starting immediately, DDC will distribute all draft and package versions of Shmaltz's core beers, including their flagship Hop Manna IPA, a heavily dry hopped and unfiltered American IPA; Messiah Brown Ale, a complex yet smooth American Brown Ale; Slingshot Lager, a dry hopped American craft lager; Hop Momma IPA, a hazy and juicy New England-style IPA brewed with peach, apricot and a hint of habanero; and 518 Craft Foggy Goggles, a New England-style hazy session IPA.
DeCrescente Distributing Company (DDC) is a fourth-generation beverage distributor, family owned and operated since 1948, taking great pride in its employees, customer service and community involvement. Most notably, DDC was awarded Best Places to Work in the Capital Region for nine consecutive years and employs more than 400 people. Some of the company's brands include MillerCoors, Boston Beer Co., New Belgium, Heineken, Pabst, Corona, Sierra Nevada, Matt Brewing Company, Yuengling, Guinness, FIFCO USA, Mike's Hard, Snapple, Saratoga Water and Polar Beverages. DDC also distributes a unique variety of local craft beers as well as wine and spirits, including Brooklyn Brewery, Artisanal Brew Works, Adirondack Brewery, Brown's Brewing Co., Druthers, Ithaca Beer Co., Brewery Ommegang, R.S. Taylor & Sons Brewery, Mad Jack Brewing, Davidson Brothers, Saratoga Winery, Saratoga Courage Distillery, Springbrook Farm Distillery, Heron Hill Winery and Galway Rock Winery. For more information on DeCrescente Distributing Company, please visit our website www.ddcbev.com. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdJw5qg5A55PIFLpn | I'm typing this just after updating to the new 5.0 WordPress, the blockhead version. I don't like the idea of working with blocks. It seems to add complication where there were less complications before. But, this is my first time trying it. Working with just text has gone ok. I feel I'm typing in space with so much empty, blank, white space around my text.
Adding an image is going to be different. I don't see the image uploader anywhere… Turns out it is in the plus sign at the top left. But, having gotten the image to show up I guess I need to start another block to post again. (It was nice to have the caption right there with the options but I'm not sure how it will look, or how it will last if there are future updates to the code).
ASCII art snowflakes I posted to ASCII Artist yesterday.
Overall, the biggest problem I have with the block thing is that I don't like working in chunks. I would rather have one cohesive post without extra coding added for the sake of adding extra coding. This just seems one more way for WordPress to make it even harder and more impossible to leave WordPress as your CMS. How will any of these blockhead posts look if you export them and import them into something else? How much work will it be to fix? (A lot I expect!) Also, what happens to all these block posts when the block trend falls off the planet and something else new comes along? | c4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUcag25V5ha7jY8D43 | This is a busy place, so ensure to go and put your name down for a table. We were given a pizza buzzer and after 15-20 mins we were seated on our outdoor and the table was lovely. There was no particular view but there were good outdoor vibes. This is the first place in America where I was pleased to see corn as topping option for the pizza! Service was great and pizza was just fantastic!! So delicious!! All washed down with some fruity cider. Think I may have to squeeze in another flatbread pizza before I leave Vermont! Yum yum!
This is a great place for dinner, however the only reason I am not given a full 5 stars as there is no reservation service. First night we waited 20 minutes and then decided to go to American Flatbread (totally worth it and amazing pizza). Second night we put our name down and had to wait 45 minutes for our table outside. In that time we had a little walk around and then headed to the back of the restaurant where there is a beer garden. I had to say the beer garden was cute and had lights and good vibes. You can order food at the bar and benches are to share. Had we known about the the beer garden we would have eaten there. I ordered a Riesling and we chilled there for 15 minutes or so. FYI the menu available in the beer garden is not the full menu.
Our buzzer finally buzzed and we got a pretty nice table out in the front of the restaurant. We had a lovely waiter who was very accommodating. We ordered the Mac and cheese and black bean burger. Without even asking our waiter offered to split both meals so we could share. My husband and I were impressed!
Food was very tasty and of good quality. I loved the Mac and cheese with a crumbly top. The black bean burger was also tasty and fries were delicious. This was a great little find for our Vermont trip! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdHTxK6wB9mpb19yE | Dom Morris was adviser to the commander of the recent UK Military Task Force charged with responding to Hurricane Irma. He contested the Exeter constituency for the Conservative Party in the 2015 General Election.
Hurricane Irma's 160 miles per hour winds bounced storage containers down runways and stripped every single leaf from the British Virgin Islands. The destruction left in Irma's wake unexpectedly unleashed the UK's expeditionary amphibious capabilities at extreme short notice.
Running water stopped, supermarkets looted, airports closed, roads blocked, prisoners escaped and power stations flooded. Amongst the people, shock turned to despair and despair quickly turned to unrest, as looting and organised crime threatened law and order on British sovereign territory.
Anger led to criticism, but assertions of a slow response failed to understand one crucial factor: geography. The UK Task Force had to prepare and amass some 2,000 troops, move them 4,000 miles across the Atlantic, embark them on a fleet of ships, support helicopters and transport aircraft and insert them straight into littoral operations (military operations lying along a shore). All this had to be done across a diverse group of islands spanning the distance from the North of Scotland to the South of Spain.
This was not a fight against the Taliban, but against Mother Nature. As a commander put it to me on the ground, "the only enemy here is time." Within hours of the Government pushing the button, the lead elements of 40 Commando Royal Marines and the Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ) were out the door, exceeding all readiness expectations. Many didn't even get to say goodbye to their families. They had gone to work as normal that morning and didn't come back for five weeks.
On such a time frame, the scale of our achievements was vast. Within days the majority of the Task Force was on the three British Territories, restoring security, re-opening critical national infrastructure, rescuing vulnerable citizens and enabling other government departments to get the aid flowing and begin longer term reconstruction.
It's not clear whether the armed forces would be able to do this again if cuts to the military are as hard as some expect in next week's budget. The key challenge to this operation was geography. Whether we like it or not, the only solution for this task was maritime and amphibious forces – put simply, the ability to get people across the world and do stuff (hard and soft power). Only the Royal Marines and the Royal Navy's amphibious shipping could conduct an operation like this at pace, delivering relief to those who needed it in the most challenging of conditions.
Speculation about the defence budget is rife. What feels different this time is that our very ability to conduct expeditionary amphibious operations appears under threat. Key ingredients from the success of the Caribbean operation are at risk. The helicopter-carrying ship HMS Ocean goes out of service next year, the Royal Marines could be cut, and it is rumoured that the only remaining amphibious platforms HMS Albion and Bulwark may also go.
Whilst the public may believe that the new aircraft carriers will replace this expeditionary amphibious capability, they will not. The new carriers will be able to deliver fixed-wing aircraft, but they cannot deliver large scale amphibious operations using marines, helicopters and landing craft across the globe.
If Global Britain is to have any semblance of reality post-Brexit then it will be dependent, at least in part, on the reach of our armed forces. The capability to defend and support British sovereign territory or project power (hard of soft) thousands of miles away is wholly reliant on the likes of the Royal Navy and her Marines. If you buy into Global Britain – that is, the vision of an outward-facing, maritime nation, trading and engaging unencumbered across the world – then it must start with our armed forces.
We simply cannot trade and engage across the seven seas without the military ability to get across them quickly to deliver power and influence. With the cuts being discussed to the Navy and Royal Marines we simply cannot do this. Whether it be disaster relief for British territories or pre-emptive strikes to counter terrorism, we risk being unable to deliver.
What I and the British public most admire about my military colleagues is that they put their money where their mouths are and get the job done. If the Government is serious about Global Britain it must save our maritime and amphibious capabilities.
Who knows, it just might be popular with the public. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
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Mastodon perform on Conan (see video)
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 10:45 AM (PST)
I like all of Mastodon's releases for various reasons, but Emperor Of Sand is certainly the best one since Crack The Skye, IMO. Even if you don't like all the material or more melodic vocals, the guitar solos on this album in particular are fucking earth scorching. Anyhow, the band slogged through a fun version of "Show Yourself" last night and you can't deny the song is catchy as heck. Check the footage out HERE.
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Interviewed my sister Cambria on being erased by a big rock band
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at 10:53 PM (PST)
The people around our group at that time acknowledged the weirdness of it. I know I exist. – Cambria Evans
For years I have had an on again off again argument with Coheed and Cambria. We grew up together in various bands. Their first drummer Nate was my best friend and in bands with me as well. We have had many amazing times and many horrible times and in the early days we all used to play shows together all the time.
I remember a particular day in 1997 vividly where a side project band of mine called The Electric Ten Inch was jamming at Shabutie's regular practice space at Nate Kelley's family home in Bearsville, NY. The band was myself, Mic Todd on bass, Zac Shaw (now of Dead Unicorn), Nate on guitar and Damien Shannon on lead (he went on to work on Ween's White Pepper album, incidentally). Claudio Sanchez was there listening to us jam out on the song "Ghost", which was about addiction. He was sitting on the floor bopping his head to Mic's bassline. The sense of brotherhood amongst us all was very strong and the musical energy was so rad.
I never thought in a million years I would one day spend almost two decades simply asking for Claudio to admit my sister Cambria exists. She was a part of our scene, collected door money at shows that I booked for us all and is a real and good person. She is also my hero for coming out of our drug crazed Woodstock 90s scene mostly unscathed.
My sister is more reconciled to a lot that has happened including the gaslighting and does not let it affect her anymore, despite her initial discomfort. I however have a lot of ptsd from rape trauma, trans issues, being a former junkie and much more that is already hard enough to navigate without gaslighting . I get very bad anxiety attacks. I trigger very, very hard from unresolved conflicts that I bury. Especially since our dad died and only a short while afterwards people hit me up saying Coheed had a new song mocking me. I want peace but can not always control my mood swings, despite taking medication. I can only try my best. I used to even share stages with them since the band name change but when lots of time passed and they never admitted the truth, it really ate at me and offended me. Being threatened with violence by people also didn't help.
I also have shielded my sister the best I could for years from online trolls calling me a liar or her a whore, people telling me to kill myself (which I have attempted before including as recently as 2015) or shitty things going on behind the scenes to discredit me and get me blacklisted. It has honestly really been hellish and made it hard not to feel a constant low level paranoia. It is also very hurtful because I have tried to save their lives before from drugs. I also put out the first cd compilation Shabutie was ever on w one of my friends Tom (called Error 404 Not Found) in 1999. I booked most of their early shows for them. I even dated the ex bassists ex wife and we have a very tangled history. Coheed even stole the guitarist of my old band of seven years Divest (who had the same producers) to be their touring keyboardist after members promised to help us get a record deal but instead we were broken up by him jumping ranks. And I know they have told people to steer clear of me.
Ten fucking years later it really broke my heart when "You've Got Spirit Kid" came out with alleged fresh attacks about me. They had used lyrics of mine before in "Hearshot Kid Disaster" and all kinds of weirdness over the years. But this new song came right as I was finally speaking to Mic Todd again after 9 years trying to heal our friendship and was giving him cancer remedies meant for my dad. I blew up online at Claudio and Mic and I have not talked again since. It sucks. He used to be one of my very best friends. Someone even vandalized my non writing related workplace at that time and I thought it was an associate of the band who I was arguing with, though now am not sure and have forgiven him.
That said, my sister and I really do want peace with the past and present members. People think I am a hypocrite at times because I will say that and then lose my temper and attack them again in very angry language. I get how that can make me seem like a bully to people who don't know the massive personal histories or the wall of silence from Claudio. I find that to be like tone policing an abuse victim who is trying to raise awareness. I mean there is a reason my band now is called Walking Bombs. I can only do my best and try not to explode but I really struggle. Doc from Bad Brains asked me at my dad;s funeral to try and lift the burden from my heart and let it go. AND I really want that but with mental health problems it comes back up. It feels like everyone is fine if I shut up about it but after near two decades of telling people I have serious manic depression issues and would simply like the respect of the warts and all truth to help heal and not re-trigger me, you'd think the band could take five minutes to make a public statement. It would seriously help me stay level and not freak out on them anymore randomly.
After many years my sister finally feels comfortable with me asking her some questions. I am very glad it doesn't upset her or reach her any more, though she also has had far less drama with them than I have.
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Five Horse Johnson stream 'Jake Leg Boogie' via Echoes and Dust
Posted by longhairedpoet on Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 3:52 PM (PST)
Toledo blues rockers Five Horse Johnson are streaming their latest full-length album Jake Leg Boogie over at Echoes and Dust.
Eric Oblander (vocals/harp) had this to say about the album:
"In many ways, making Jake Leg Boogie was one of the easiest albums to create, even though it took four years to make — sorry, Small Stone [laughs]. Our drummer Tim Gahagan is the engine that drives this band. Over the years, we have been very blessed to have a bevy of kick ass drummers sit in with us. I mean, it's not every band who gets to make not one, buttwo albums with the great Jean Paul Gaster. But we all grew up with Tim, he was our very first drummer decades ago, and few people understand how we want to do this thing better than he does. That, along with Phil D taking a larger role in the writing process really opened up some fresh angles for us. I'm not sure I've ever heard Steve or Brad play better on any of our albums to date, and Brad's lyric and vocal performances are the best yet. I striped back my harp playing and vocals a bit and tried to find the juicy, primal center, and getting back to collaborating with Brad on lyrics really helped me find fresh, new ways to sing some of the thoughts that were rolling around in my head. Also, thanks to artist Mark Dancey's understanding of the FIVE HORSE JOHNSON mission, the album art was, as usual, exactly what we wanted and needed. At the end of the day FIVE HORSE JOHNSON is just a group of guys who like to laugh at each other's jokes, throw back a few beers, travel the world playing music together, and record the coolest albums we can along the way, to document our experiences. Sometimes, if you don't over think it and just get to it, good things happen. And that's what's at the heart of our new album Jake Leg Boogie. We hope ya'll dig listening to it as much as we dug making it."
Head over to Echoes and Dust to stream Jake Leg Boogie in its entirety.
More On: Hard Rock, Music, Five Horse Johnson, Small Stone Records
Wovenwar release new video for "Cascade"
Posted by Metal Riot on Monday, June 26, 2017 at 7:01 PM (PST)
After releasing their sophomore full-length, Honor Is Dead, to critical acclaim last year, Wovenwar is launching a new video for the album track "Cascade" today. It was directed/edited by the band's own Nick Hipa (guitar).
More aggressive and fluid than its self-titled predecessor, Honor Is Dead was written with contributions from all members. The results speak for themselves, capturing a group that sounds truly unified, and hungry. Expanding upon the ruthlessly catchy melodies and hooks of their debut, Honor Is Dead makes for a listening experience with real depth, and a broad emotional range. Driven by a darker lyrical theme, the album's 11 tracks hit with devastating force!
To preview and purchase Honor Is Dead, please visit: metalblade.com/wovenwar
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Grave Pleasures sign to Century Media, "Motherblood" looms
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 4:24 PM (PST)
Century Media has wisely signed Grave Pleasures, one of the best bands in the world right now. Arguably the current buzz band of death rock (and actually really good), Grave Pleasures return with Motherblood this year. Recently the band has been supporting Killing Joke and has been molting into a new era.
Motherblood was recorded at Orgone Studios in the UK (Ghost, Paradise Lost, Ulver). It has been scheduled to a worldwide release for late September/early October 2017.
Mat McNerney comments on the albums concept and music:
"Like the great sacrament of ancient times that was the blood sacrifice of the mother, we too have laid down our most holy flesh at your feet. This record, which is a bold re-definition of death-rock and our totemic challenge to our pretenders, shall be our most grand and sordid testament. If you have never danced with the skeletons, then this album is your gateway drug to all the nihilistic pleasures of the grave. Apocalyptic post-punk never sounded so desperately bleak and wild yet never grinned so maniacally and writhed so fervently with tongues that whip the tombs. The Kali figure of our cover is the eternal icon of nuclear fear. She presides over the religion of an apocalyptic future. A desolate future we proudly celebrate with caustic music of the most furious punk. Come imbibe and wash your mind in our Motherblood. We're dancing in the lion's mouth. The elevator only goes down."
More On: Hard Rock, Signing, Grave Pleasures, Century Media
Blacktop Mojo announce FREE Where The Wind Blows Tour
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 10:17 AM (PST)
I feel like I must have misread this but the press release for the Blacktop Mojo Where The Wind Blows Tour coming up says: Keep an eye out all summer for new dates on the band's Facebook page. As a thank you to their friends, fans, and supporters, ALL of the shows will be free.
Dang, dude. That is some fan service! Hope the fans appreciate such a big gesture and buy some merch. It could be a good promotional play or costly, but either way it is certainly a pretty rad move on the part of the Palestine, TX hard rock band. Currently creating a growing buzz with their new album Burn The Ships, Black Top Mojo's got the kind of working class hard rock with muscular riffs but radio crossover appeal that fans of bands like Candlebox , Zac Brown Band or Adelita's Way will appreciate. Nothing too flashy here, just people loving big rock.
More info BELOW.
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Pics: Ghost at Palace Theatre in Albany
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 5:16 PM (PST)
We have not had any photos for a little bit from our beloved butter muffin/camera pro Matt Slater (also of the band Beneath The Remains), as he has been chillin' and here and there doing some stuff for the cool Outsider Magazine. Today Slater Master Hate returns to the Metal Riot fold with some cool shots of Sweden's reigning melodic spooky gang Ghost from their recent off night from Iron Maiden tour headlining stop in Albany, NY. I can imagine it was a hell of a great show in such a good venue to see Ghost and Zombi.
Check 'em out!
More On: Hard Rock, Show, Ghost B.C., Rise Above Records
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow release new song "Land of Hope and Glory"
Posted by longhairedpoet on Monday, June 5, 2017 at 2:05 PM (PST)
UK hard rockers Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow have released a new studio recording, "Land of Hope and Glory."
Blackmore wanted to show his solidarity and support for the UK with this recording. He was moved to release "Land of Hope and Glory" which is a reworking of "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" (the tune most commonly recognized as "the graduation song").
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow recently enjoyed success on their 2016 European tour, earning critical acclaim. The band has recently released a concert film from this tour called Memories In Rock: Live In Germany and will release the Live In Birmingham 2016 2CD on June 9.
"Land Of Hope And Glory" will be featured on the bands' upcoming album To The Moon And Back: 20 Years And Beyond. This collection includes newly recorded and remixed versions of previous tracks as well as brand new tracks, and will be released in July.
Check out "Land of Hope and Glory" via Amazon or iTunes.
More On: Hard Rock, Release, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Universal Republic Records
Abandoned Souls premiere "Make It Last" lyric video via Metal Nation Radio
Posted by longhairedpoet on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:53 PM (PST)
Ontario rockers Abandoned Souls have premiered a lyric video for their song "Make It Last."
You can check out the lyric video for "Make It Last" over at Metal Nation Radio.
The song is the title track off of the EP that Abandoned Souls released last April.
The band comments on the EP:
"We want to give the fans a pure and unfiltered listening experience, one that reflects us and where we are at in our musical journey and our lives. It is as much a reflection of who we are as musicians as it is of us as people. The philosophy behind "'Make It Last' is a reference to always trying to make the good times in life last as long as you can. As much as possible, try to live every minute like it could be your last…Time is fleeting, so…Make It Last!"
Check out the cover art for Make It Last as well as Abandoned Souls show dates here.
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End of an era: Pete Adams leaves Baroness, new lineup announced pre Euro Tour
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 1:13 PM (PST)
Photo by Dante Torrieri
Wow. End of an era. News has broke that longtime Baroness guitarist Pete Adams, who played a HUGE role in the band's ascent to arguably the coolest sludge prog pop hybrid band just about ever, has left the band amicably. So glad I saw their first return show post crash. Pete will still be active in the awesome af Valkyrie (which he plays in with his brother) and Baroness have even announced a replacement already. We are sure they will still be great. Still, we gotta toast Pete on his way out as watching him and John together was always magic and felt like a real brotherhood as well. Maximum eternal hails.
Read a lengthy statement from everyone BELOW. It is warm and inspiring, actually.
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Formative Years: 5 Album Picks – 1. Walking Bombs' Morgan Evans
photo by Megan Thomas
Blah Blah Blah. New feature around here henceforth shall be talking to an artist about five records that were very important to them as they grew their first baby bat wings. Since it is 7:50 AM and I can't just magically have answers from Ola Englund or Scott Hull in my back pocket moments after conceiving this column, I will go first myself to kick off this edition.
As some of you know, I not only do the majority of heavy lifting around here for Metalriot.com but have also been a singer for over 20 years in the Hudson Valley, NY region. We have had many bands and musicians come from or settle here. Coheed, one of the dudes from Bask, Shai Hulud (originally from Florida, I know), All Out War, Nightmares For A Week, Three, Pitchfork Militia, Geezer, Diet Cig, Casting Ships, Painmask, Clover, Shadow Witch. Even one time pretty big ska influenced bands like Perfect Thyroid and Conehead Buddha. Take your pick. There are a lot of 'em old and new.
A great part of growing up here was being immersed in a deep well of creativity so close to Woodstock, NY and many varied tastes. You also were close to the Albany and Poughkeepsie hardcore scenes and a lot more. I am currently focused on my solo/collaborative work as Walking Bombs , which allows me to do whatever genres I wish with various friends or solo. The next wave of material is gonna up the ante on some of the punk and sludge/grunge influences, but I just released an album called Brave Hours that is more on the alt rock/post-punk side. I also used to sing for many other bands from Fuse to Divest to Pontius Pilate Sales Pitch and Antidote 8, to name a few.
Some of you know me. Others don't. Perhaps you might find it interesting to know some records that inspired me to do what I do everyday. Don't fret. I will find some more famous people for future entries, hahaha.
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Footage of Burton C. Bell with Delain at The Whisky
Head to Blabbermouth here to check out some cool footage of legendary industrial-metal vocalist Burton C. Bell rocking out on their collab "Where Is The Blood" with the bad asses in Delain at the Whisky A Go Go. Burton has done plenty of cool guest spots over the years from Ministry to Soulfly, but the one with Delain remains a favorite of many. The article also confirms that the Fear Factory break up rumor is unfounded, thankfully. And here is the original collab below, if you've never heard that.
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Mastodon confirmed as final headliners for Psycho Las Vegas
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 12:28 PM (PST)
Well, seems weird to be posting about music when the GOP just voted to make rape a pre-existing condition, but I guess cheer and motivation in the form of art is always important. I'm drinking tea and listening to "Linchpin" from Fear Factory and hoping everyone out there doesn't give up the fight.
Anyway, some good news for rock and metal lovers. Mastodon have been added to the already insanely dope Psycho Las Vegas bill this year. King Diamond is doing classic Abigail entirely, Laura from Kylesa is unveiling a set of herself and special guests, you've got up and coming heralded as the next generation of top quality acts like Gatecreeper, Oathbreaker, Chelsea Wolfe and Inter Arma, varied styles of experimental metal from USNEA to Dark Castle plus a lot of my personal faves in the scene like Jex Thoth, Conan, Blood Ceremony and even the Cult of Luna collaboration with Julie Christmas!
Then you also have legacy bands like Diamond Head, Melvins, Swans, Carcass, Corrosion Of Conformity, Magma, Cirith Ungol. I mean, Jesus Christ!
Damn, yo. The event is set to take place from August 18th through August 20th, 2017 with a pre-party August 17th at the Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Interview: Greta Van Fleet's "Black Smoke Rising" might just make you believe
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 6:01 PM (PST)
L-R: Sam Kiszka, Josh Kiszka, Danny Wagner, Jake Kiszka
A lot of bands can be like a family, functional or dysfunctional. The fans become extended family tree members through involvement and the branches grow. In the case of Michigan exports Greta Van Fleet, three members of the band are brothers! Talk about learning to share!
We recently interviewed hard rockers Paralandra who have a father / daughter team in the band and they manage to get along. I can't imagine it is always easy for brothers, but the band certainly have a unified sense of energy to their classic rock influenced ear burners. Hey, it works for my cousins in Texas band Hawk Vs. Dove. People have been raving about GVF's Black Smoke Rising, with comparisons to Led Zep and The Black Crowes coming to mind. That said, the guys are also set on making their own mark while drawing from the well of soul, rock and blues stomp of lore and yore.
More On: Hard Rock, Exclusive, Greta Van Fleet,
Live Revew: In This Moment with Motionless In White, Avatar, Gemini Syndrome (Albany,NY)
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 8:58 PM (PST)
In This Moment positively owned their headlining Albany, NY show on 4/19 with Motionless In White, Avatar and Gemini Syndrome all also doing their part to ignite the night to crazy levels of fun for everyone who attended.
Photos from Catharina Christiana and a full live review BELOW.
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BkiUddI5qhLACG6g_Uu4 | It has been seen that rheumatoid arthritis is quite alleviated with alternative therapies compared to regular ones. And this observation has given rise to rejuvenated hopes for rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Alternative treatments are useful to generate physical and psychological exhilaration in the status. But it should be understood that prior to seeking any of the alternative medications, you have to take the permission of your healthcare provider and inform him or her thoroughly of your venture.
These two Chinese treatments are now very well famed for comforting pain and a lot of other disorders. In acupuncture, special sort of needles are made use of to deflate some particular points on the body which creates the useful result, while in acupressure, points mostly on palms and feet are applied pressure to generate the desired reflex. There are researches available signifying that by using these two methods there is more discharge of endorphins and hence inflammation is lightened substantially. Prior to starting any of these treatments you must perform 2 important tasks. To start with you have to get consent of your doctor and secondly seek a genuine expert of these therapies.
Plenty of relaxation methods for example tai chi and meditation have been seen to be fairly helpful for rheumatoid arthritis. In RA, pain is the predominant expression which makes life sad for patient. Therefore pacifying procedures are greatly advantageous to deal with RA. Scientific studies conducted in 2002 showed that mind-body therapies e.g. relaxation, bio-feedback and imagery give rise to alleviation in soreness, psychological as well as physical status and power to withstand. It was also revealed that people suffering from short term length of the disease got more advantage with the help of these techniques.
Massage is useful in RA for relieving soreness and inflexibility of joints. A lot of physicians too advocate their RA patients to take massage. Also stress hormones and depression are reduced due to massage as revealed by scientific researches. Moreover there is lessening in ache and spasms, rise in pain-killing endorphins and enhancement in sleep as well as immunity. Here also you need to take care of informing your healthcare provider of massage and choosing a massage therapist who is skilful enough to provide you the actual goodness of massage and who is specifically skilled in offering massage to patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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BkiUbirxK0zjCxh71vra | The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Pier Francesco Mola
about 1630-5
Bequeathed by Lord Farnborough, 1838
The holy family are resting from their travels in this small pastoral scene. The Virgin Mary sits on a rock, absorbed in nursing the Christ Child; a bundle and pitcher lie on the ground beside her. Saint Joseph leans on the rocky ground beyond, looking up at a small cloud above the Virgin's head, out of which peer three cherubs. His staff rests against the rock and their donkey grazes in the background on the left.
After the birth of Christ at Bethlehem, King Herod ordered all the male first-born children in the area to be executed – the so-called Massacre of the Innocents – so Mary and Joseph fled to safety in Egypt. Here, however, there is no sign of pursuing soldiers: the scene has the domestic charm of a day out in the countryside.
This is a comparatively early work by Mola, who specialised in small idyllic landscapes with religious subjects. The influence of his master, Francesco Albani, is evident in this painting.
This is The Flight into Egypt. After the birth of Christ at Bethlehem, King Herod ordered all the male first-born children in the area to be executed – the so-called Massacre of the Innocents. According to the Gospel of Matthew (2: 13–15), an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream warning him that Herod was intent on killing Jesus and that the family should flee to safety in Egypt. Here, however, there is no sign of pursuing soldiers: the scene has the domestic charm of a day out in the countryside.
This is a comparatively early work by Pier Francesco Mola, who specialised in small idyllic landscapes with religious subjects. He made a number of variants of this scene over the course of his career, including an oil on copper in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a later rendition in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
Mola spent most of his life in Rome, aside from two periods during his youth. Although his travels are not well documented, it is known that in 1633–40 and 1641–7 he lived in the north of Italy and visited a number of cities including Bologna and Venice. There, he became familiar with the works of Titian, Guercino and Domenichino. He completed his studies in Bologna in the studio of Francesco Albani, whose influence is evident in this painting, particularly in the figures.
More paintings by Pier Francesco Mola
Saint John the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness
Saint John the Baptist sits on a rock in a wooded landscape. He is preaching to a group of people in Oriental dress: according to the Gospel of Luke (3: 1–17), John spent some years living as a hermit in the wilderness, preaching repentance and baptising people in the river Jordan. His followers...
Leda and the Swan
Style of Pier Francesco Mola
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BkiUbUXxK7kjXLlzaRsi | Trump's success will be judged not by what he does but by what he un-does and what he does not do. As the Trump administration wades through the herculean task of deconstructing the administrative state, a goal stated by chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon at the CPAC Conference, the country will respond with a surge of energy, a greater sense of individual freedom and growing prosperity. As President John F. Kennedy was reported to have said after signing the largest tax cut since World War II, a rising tide raises all boats.
President Donald Trump made his agenda clear when, as president-elect, he signaled his intent to sign an executive order that would rescind bad or outdated regulations by requiring federal agencies to cut two regulations for every one they enact. This will streamline government in the long run, save billions of taxpayer dollars, reduce the national debt and restore freedoms. We ought to encourage state and local governments to follow suit.
Trump is planning to take the scalpel to the regressive Dodd-Frank law which was a massive bureaucratic over-reaction to the mortgage meltdown of 2008, a law that has dragged down the economy by making it more difficult for lower-income borrowers to obtain credit and purchase homes. A Trump executive order gives the Treasury Department 120 days to issue a report that will determine whether such regulations comport to the "core principles" of growing the economy.
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BkiUdqk5qX_AY3RB4Bqa | Kirstjen M. Nielsen is secretary of homeland security.
Drone technology offers the potential to change our world — from enabling historic transformations in e-commerce to faster emergency response. But the technology also has a dark side. It can be used to spy on us, to threaten our critical infrastructure, or to attack crowds and public places.
For years, the Department of Homeland Security has worried about the dangers of unmanned aerial systems, and we have sought the legal authority to protect Americans against corrupted aerial devices. Today I have a pressing message for Congress: Time is running out.
As secretary of homeland security, I can tell you that threat is outpacing our ability to respond. Without congressional action, the U.S. government will remain unable to identify, track and mitigate weaponized or dangerous drones in our skies.
Just last month, officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a spike in the use of drones at our borders. Transnational criminals are undoubtedly exploiting these systems to search for security gaps so they can avoid our officers and sneak into the country undetected.
Criminals are also using them to smuggle drugs. Last year, Border Patrol agents arrested a 25-year-old man for using a drone to ferry tens of thousands of dollars' worth of methamphetamine across the southwest border, raising the specter that other dangerous goods could be transported the same way.
Worse still, terrorist groups such as the Islamic State aspire to use armed drones against our homeland and U.S. interests overseas. They have deployed bomb-laden aerial devices on the battlefield to surveil, disrupt and kill opposing forces, and they are sharing that expertise with others.
We have already worked with our partners to stop terrorist plots that could have involved drone technology. But we need to acknowledge that our first and last chance to stop a malicious drone might be during its final approach to a target.
Unfortunately, the laws on the books today were not written with weaponized drones in mind. As a result, the nation's two biggest law enforcement departments — DHS and the Justice Department — have their hands tied when it comes to protecting Americans.
While we do have certain limited capabilities for scanning the skies for rogue drones, we largely lack the updated tools and most sophisticated authorities to monitor and mitigate inbound threats.
For instance, DHS should be able to access signals being transmitted between a nefarious drone and its ground controller to accurately geolocate both quickly. This could allow authorities to take control of the device or stop its operator on the ground to prevent a potential attack.
Yet current legal constraints prohibit us from doing so and from addressing other drone-threat scenarios, such as drones configured to operate without a human operator, which will require a separate set of solutions.
Worse still, we are prevented from even testing certain drone-defense technologies where we really need them, such as in urban environments to protect large gatherings and public events.
Some in Congress recognize these problems and have stepped up. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), among others, have championed legislative fixes to give DHS and the Justice Department the authority to develop, test and deploy advanced and effective counter-drone technology.
The Defense Department already has similar authorities to protect U.S. forces overseas and certain domestic facilities. But it's time we had them to protect Americans here at home.
We cannot afford to wait. Our enemies are aware of our vulnerabilities and eager to exploit them. So let's stop admiring the problem and start solving it. The House and Senate should approve a legislative fix at the earliest possible opportunity.
Drones will soon become a part of everyday life. Before then, let's make sure they don't become an everyday threat.
Letters to the Editor: Are intruding drones any different from human trespassers? | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUcBXxK0zjCobCNS4v | The C.D.C. recommends that different vaccines be most well-liked over J.&J.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention really helpful on Thursday that Covid vaccines apart from Johnson & Johnson's ought to be most well-liked, after its advisers cited growing proof that the corporate's pictures can set off a uncommon blood clotting dysfunction now linked to dozens of circumstances and no less than 9 deaths within the United States previously yr.
The resolution adopted a suggestion by an knowledgeable panel that successfully discouraged vaccine suppliers and adults from utilizing Johnson & Johnson's shot. New knowledge confirmed that there was the next danger for the blood clotting situation than beforehand recognized. The danger was biggest amongst girls 30 to 49, estimated at 1 in 100,000 who had obtained the corporate's shot.
Johnson & Johnson's vaccine just isn't being faraway from the market. It will stay an choice for people who find themselves "unable or unwilling" to obtain the extra well-liked pictures from Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech, the company mentioned.
The suggestion is the most recent setback for a vaccine that has largely fallen out of favor within the United States. The firm's vaccine has not fulfilled its early promise as a conventional, one-and-done format that will be straightforward to deploy in additional remoted or rural communities, or amongst folks skittish about receiving two doses.
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About 16 million folks within the United States have obtained the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as their main immunization, in contrast with 73 million absolutely immunized with Moderna's vaccine and 114 million with the Pfizer-BioNTech pictures. Among Americans who've obtained a booster, simply 1.6 p.c selected Johnson & Johnson.
This week, the Food and Drug Administration issued up to date steerage on the dangers of the blood clotting dysfunction linked to Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, however reiterated that the advantages outweighed its dangers.
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Dozens of nations have approved Johnson & Johnson's vaccine and have been utilizing it as a part of their immunization campaigns. But whereas it stays in excessive demand in some components of the world, it has misplaced recognition in lots of international locations due to security considerations and its relative decrease effectiveness in opposition to Covid.
Some governments have already moved to place restrictions on Johnson & Johnson's shot due to the blood clotting danger. Finland, Denmark and Slovenia stopped utilizing it, and several other different nations have ranked it decrease to be used than Pfizer-BioNTech's and Moderna's vaccines. Some international locations even have suggested medical doctors to counsel girls below 50 of the potential danger.
The C.D.C. panel's suggestion lands in the midst of a surge in virus circumstances pushed by the Delta coronavirus variant and Omicron, the most recent model that has already turn out to be dominant in some international locations and is spreading quick in Britain and the United States.
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A brand new U.S. surge. The C.D.C mentioned that the Omicron variant's fast unfold within the U.S. might portend a surge in infections as quickly as January, however circumstances are already spiking, main places of work to cancel vacation events, Broadway performances to be shuttered and school finals to be moved on-line.
The Omicron variant. The new Covid variant has been detected in dozens of nations. While Omicron seems to have the ability to partially evade antibodies, it might be much less extreme than different types of the virus, and new laboratory research point out that vaccines, and particularly boosters, might provide safety in opposition to extreme illness.
Pfizer vaccine in youthful kids. The firm mentioned that a low dose of its coronavirus vaccine didn't produce an ample immune response in 2- to 5-year-olds in ongoing scientific trials. The setback threatens to maintain the vaccine from youthful kids for longer than many had hoped.
U.S. surpasses 800,000 deaths. This previous week, Covid deaths within the United States surpassed 800,000 — the best recognized variety of any nation. About 75 p.c of these deaths have concerned folks 65 or older. One in 100 older Americans has died from the virus.
Several laboratory experiments recommend that a single dose of Johnson & Johnson's shot might provide little protection in opposition to an infection with Omicron. The firm mentioned late final month that it was testing blood samples from scientific trial individuals who've obtained its shot as a booster to see how their vaccine-induced antibodies fare in opposition to Omicron.
At Thursday's assembly of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, C.D.C. officers went into element on the clotting-related syndrome recognized in 54 folks within the United States who obtained the shot earlier than the tip of August. Overall, the speed of the situation was three.eight circumstances per a million folks given the vaccine.
People who obtained a Johnson & Johnson shot months in the past are usually not regarded as in danger for the clotting situation as a result of the onset of signs usually occurred about 9 days after vaccination within the identified circumstances.
An elevated danger for the situation has additionally been linked to the shot from AstraZeneca, which isn't approved within the United States. It has not been linked to the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.
Evidence has more and more proven that one dose of Johnson & Johnson's shot affords a lot much less safety in opposition to an infection than different vaccines. Federal well being officers in October approved boosters for individuals who had obtained a single shot of the corporate's vaccine no less than two months earlier. They allowed for a "combine and match" strategy, permitting folks to get a second shot, however of a Pfizer or a Moderna vaccine.
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BkiUdbA5qYVBc0ciskkg | Corey Diethorn made two free throws after time had expired as the Greyhounds came from behind for the second straight night to defeat Post University of Waterbury, Conn., in the Bryant University Invitational in Smithfield, R.I.
Assumption (10-3) has won five straight. The Greyhounds also improved their all-time record to 1,000-816 since the program first began recording data in 1922-23. They became just the 62nd team in NCAA Division 2 history with 1,000 wins, and only the second in New England, joining conference rival Saint Michael�s.
Assumption enjoyed a 28-16 advantage in the paint and scored 25 points off turnovers, but the Eagles took a 61-55 lead with 2:08 remaining when Jesse Iyalekhue hit a lane jumper.
Greyhounds junior Patrick Shea made both ends of a one-and-one and senior Greg Twomey converted a layup in the final minutes, with his ensuing free throw completing the three-point play and making it 61-60 with 1:35 left.
Post�s A.J. Reitter made one of two free throws before Twomey made a twisting layup to tie the game at 62 with 40 seconds left.
The Lancers (5-5) lost in the consolation of the Cru Crothal Holiday Classic at Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.
Will Spont finished with a game-high 26 points to go with 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, while Ryan Frassica scored 17 points, including a 3-pointer with 5:55 left that brought the Lancers within 64-63. Hendrix then closed the game on a 22-11 run.
The Cougars (5-6) had five double-figure scorers but fell to Carroll College (6-3) of Wisconsin in the championship game of the Cactus Jam Hoop Classic at Phoenix College in Arizona.
The Bison trailed at halftime, 35-34, but lost their shooting touch in the second half of the consolation game of the Surf �n� Slam tournament at San Diego.
Sophomore Kelsey O�Keefe of Quaboag had 6 assists and a career-high 15 rebounds in Bryant�s 74-55 win over Caldwell College in Smithfield, R.I.
The Crusaders and Catamounts played to a 1-1 tie in the first day of the Sheraton/TD Banknorth Catamount Cup at Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vt., with Vermont advancing to the finals against Quinnipiac by winning a shootout.
Freshman goalie Adam Roy was outstanding in net for the Crusaders, recording 36 saves, including 15 in the first period.
Everett Sheen scored his team-leading ninth goal at 5:45 of the third period, his eighth in the last five games. Vermont (4-6-4) tied the game on a power-play goal with 32 seconds left.
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Anyone know of such?
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BkiUbGQ5qoTDtofJ8xak | "The White Man's Burden" ("O Fardo do Homem Branco") é um poema escrito pelo poeta inglês Rudyard Kipling. Foi publicado originalmente na revista popular McClure's em 1898, com o subtítulo The United States and the Philippine Islands. "The White Man's Burden" foi escrito a respeito da conquista estadunidense das Filipinas e outras ex-colônias espanholas. Embora o poema de Kipling misturasse exortações ao império com ajuizados alertas sobre os custos envolvidos, os imperialistas dos Estados Unidos se fixaram na frase "fardo do homem branco" como uma caracterização para o neocolonialismo que justificasse a política como um nobre empreendimento.
Ver também
Destino manifesto
Noblesse oblige
Racismo científico
Bibliografia
CHAPMAN, Alison. A Companion to Victorian Poetry. Blackwell, Oxford, 2002.
DALE, Alzina Stone. Outline of Sanity. iUniverse, 2005.
Ligações externas
Em inglês
Em português
Colonialismo
Eurocentrismo | wikipedia | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUbJo5qsNCPV6YjFfo | Ecosystems Enable Urban Evolution
by Jennifer James | Dec 12, 2017
The ecosystem concept, once confined to its biological origins, has found new life in the smart city.
When natural systems begin to evolve, there is at first low diversity and complexity. Over time, diversity expands, system interactions get more complex, and cooperation is necessary to ensure the success of the community.
Similarly, early smart city programs consisted of a limited number of participants and technologies. Many were top-down efforts that emphasized using technology to help city systems operate more efficiently. Over time, communications networks and the Internet of Things ("IOT") expanded connectivity across sectors, assets and citizens. Accordingly, the range of smart solutions and participants has skyrocketed, and smart city silos are giving way to collaborative arrangements across sectors, solution providers, stakeholder groups and infrastructure assets.
Impact Investing for Smart Cities
by Jack Crawford | Dec 5, 2017
The impact of new technologies won't be measured in social media "likes" or page views like before, they'll be measured in lives saved and children fed; parents educated and renewable megawatts generated. Technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, and robotics are simultaneously coming into their own. Each will be as important as the waves that came before, but when you stitch them together, you get game changers like self-driving cars or security-providing drones.
The IOT – More than just the sum of the parts
by Peter Williams | Nov 8, 2017
Smart grid has been enabled by the IOT, in this case in the form of networked meters and sensors, coinciding with the revolution in energy generation and storage technologies. Transmission and distribution systems can be monitored and managed more effectively. But most importantly from a city point of view, distributed energy resources (DER) such as wind and solar or energy from waste, perhaps integrated with energy storage on microgrids, and perhaps supported by demand response (DR), are augmenting or replacing traditional energy sources from central generation plants. These newer sources are often on a neighborhood, city block or single property scale, and are poised to grow even faster once electric vehicle batteries are added into the mix. The IOT has enabled the near real-time control and management required for these innovations, as well as more granular monitoring of consumption (or generation) by consumers combined with billing and supporting data, through AMI.
Don't Just Collect Location Data, Get Location Intelligence
by Santiago Giraldo | Nov 7, 2017
LI is a crucial component of city planning and state and local government response. In emergencies, real-time monitoring can provide instant information to responders, in situations ranging from fires to crime or hurricanes. It can help aid workers distribute their social services in areas where they will have the most efficacy. After floods, like in Houston, city officials could determine which areas are worth rebuilding and which neighborhoods are too dangerous to continue to invest money in after multiple losses.
The Search for a Theory of Cities
by Colin Harrison | Nov 2, 2017
In the first article in this series, I argued that cities are complex, urban ecosystems that exist at multiple spatial and temporal scales and that do not permit the kinds of decomposition or systems engineering on which technology is based. Because of this, until we have a deeper understanding of what really makes the city a living entity, our progress on smart cities will be inherently superficial and of limited impact. In this article I ask: if we want to develop an understanding of how cities work, how would we go about this?
How AI Can Help Cities Conserve Resources and Plan for the Future
by Lucas Joppa | Nov 1, 2017
Unfortunately, many local decision-makers do not have easy access to accurate and timely data. The most accessible land cover map for the United States is currently produced at 30 meter resolution, and is now 5 years out of date. Products like these are useful when asking very broad questions at a national scale, but the lack of spatial and temporal resolution minimizes the utility of these data for city-level planning.
Online Game Challenges Players to be Mayor for a Day, Citizens for Life
by Anna Prusa | Oct 31, 2017
Educational games allow us to present complicated issues in a simple but engaging format. As populations and economic potential become increasingly concentrated in urban areas, cities around the world are on the front lines of pressing global issues ranging from inequality to sustainability. In a world of limitless demands and finite resources, tackling these challenges requires both ingenuity and collaboration between public officials and citizens—and cities need to ensure that residents are equipped to engage. Technology can be a powerful tool for improving transparency, accountability, and communication between city officials and their residents. Technology can also empower the next generation of community leaders through civic education games and other interactive platforms.
The Mysterious Benefits of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
by Guneet Bedi | Oct 25, 2017
Previously, custom manufacturing was seen as an unprofitable offering that only specialist manufacturers or large manufacturers could take on. The IIoT could make offering custom manufacturing jobs something worthwhile you can offer. With sensors attached to individual components along the production line, containing the specifications, much of this process can be automated – and therefore scalable.
Ohio: America's Innovation Corridor
by Milind Paranjape | Oct 23, 2017
Ohio is home to, or connected with, numerous businesses, academic institutions, research facilities and trade organizations involved in development and commercialization of new technologies, including those related to information technology and autonomous and connected vehicles.
Ohio is creating smart mobility corridors that will be the proving ground for innovation in transportation. In November, state officials announced a $15 million investment in a Smart Mobility Corridor, installing fiber-optic cable and sensors in the 35-mile stretch of highway between Columbus and the TRC in East Liberty, where new technologies can be safely tested in real-life traffic situations.
The Smart City Starter Set
by Peter Williams | Oct 17, 2017
As with AMI and smart lighting, the core benefit is efficiency, in this case in the form of reduced energy and water consumption. If the building design is extended to include technologies such as roof-top energy generation and water recycling, then it is increasingly possible to create, at reasonable cost, zero net impact buildings. Smart buildings may also incorporate green roofs, both to help manage temperature and heat island effects, and also to delay storm water run-off.
The New Data-Centric Approach to Improving Urban Air Quality
by Sean Wihera | Oct 16, 2017
Today, continued advances in low-cost sensors and the Internet of Things have enabled the next-generation of air quality monitoring that can provide decision makers and communities with accurate, high resolution data at costs orders of magnitude lower than traditional monitoring stations. Cloud-based platforms and machine learning can ensure these low-cost solutions are increasingly accurate and remain calibrated. Further, these new solutions are often designed for minimal maintenance to ensure they remain feasible for city budgets (or other operators) over the long term.
Regional Sustainability at the District Level
by Rimas Gulbinas | Oct 11, 2017
At the recent Global Cities Team Challenge Expo, Acquanetta Warren, the Mayor of Fontana California, expressed that 'Technology makes government more accessible.' Similar to cities, however, district-level organizations face constant challenges associated with financial and human resource constraints. In an environment of competing priorities and limited resources, strategies that depend on upfront investment and long-term returns are difficult to adopt at any level of governance.
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BkiUdcjxK4sA-5fmxatt | Breaking Dawn Begins Filming In October?
"Breaking Dawn", the final chapter in the "Twilight" franchise", will apparently be shot as two films back-to-back starting in mid-October reports Deadline Hollywood.
The splitting of the final book into two films (like with the "Harry Potter" franchise) has long been rumoured, but this is the first word on an actual date being targeted to begin production.
Summit Entertainment is apparently looking at 'high-end directors' presently to helm the feature which scribe Melissa Rosenberg is currently adapting.
No release dates have been mentioned though it's likely one of two scenarios. The first would be to have Part 1 in June 2011 and Part 2 in November 2011 to release it in the same calendar year, a move that would require post-production to be completed rather quickly.
The other scenario would be Part 1 in November 2011 and Part 2 in June 2012, following a year later in the same release slots as the final "Harry Potter" two-part film (its Nov. 2010 and June 2011).
Update: At present Summit is officially denying the claim, saying the decision is not yet made – "No decision has been made and as we have said all along we are continuing to work with Stephenie Meyer to bring 'Breaking Dawn' to the big screen" a studio rep told Coming Soon. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdUc5qhDBWAzXsPCP | We live in a world that values storytellers. Masterful presenters. TEDx speakers.
It's only natural that we want to imitate the best orators. It's a worthy aspiration. But instead of imitating our heroes, we usually end up boring our audience instead.
The reason for this is simple: We spend too much time trying to be novel and not enough time trying to be familiar, which ends up confusing the audience.
That's according to a recent research study published in Psychological Science. What did they find that makes them come to this conclusion?
Presenters think audiences only want to hear the novel.
Audiences think they only want to hear the novel.
Audiences respond better to the familiar, with a sprinkling of novelty.
Presenters confuse audiences by trying to be novel only.
For a speech to be effective, it must be clear and connect with the audience on an emotional level. Being novel alone doesn't do that. What does?
Building first upon familiar experiences, then adding in novelty.
No speaker has unlimited time (thank heavens in most cases!).
Because of that, speakers have to leave out pieces of information. That requires the audience to fill in the gaps on their own to make meaning of what they're hearing.
And the best way for humans to bridge the information gap? Through familiar or shared experiences.
But aspiring presenters, wanting to be spectacular and novel like their heroes, think they need to cut out all familiarity from their presentation (that's what the audience wants, right?). That makes it hard for the audience to fill in the blanks.
Before long the audience will become confused, lost, and bored to tears.
For a presentation to be memorable requires an emotional connection to the message. Most speakers overestimate their communication ability. They especially overestimate their ability to draw out the varied emotions of an audience.
Every person attaches emotions to life's experiences. When you call upon a shared experience, you call upon the emotions attached to that familiar experience. Presto! Those emotions are now attached to your presentation.
Cut the familiar out, and you have nothing more than cold words uttered from a stage. No emotion. No connection. Snoozeville.
Go back and review a presentation of your favorite speaker. Look at how they drew on the familiar to draw you in. It's so natural you probably missed it, right?
Now you know the trick: Build on the familiar, sprinkle in some novelty, and it will surprise you how engaging your next presentation will be. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUdHM4ubng6eY9L_Hm | Have you downloaded our guide yet?
It's a must-read for New Zealand tax advisors wanting the best for their clients.
If you're managing clients, it's important to know what to pay, when to pay and avoid IRD use of money interest. This guide helps you know what obligations are, given recent legislative changes.
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Share this useful guide with your clients. Not only will it help them understand how provisional tax works, but it will make those tax pooling conversations much easier too.
By becoming a TMNZ Premium Partner, it's a way for firms of all sizes to improve client outcomes and move towards an advisory model. As tax agents, you get access to premium content and services. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeHk4dbghX5eqgRFM | This 14 inch SATA power Y cable is a serial ATA Male and a dual serial ATA Female. This Y cable is 15-pin.
This cable is exactly what I was looking for. Plugged it in and everything worked as it should. Very Pleased.
Unless you can afford "all the latest" tech gadgets, you need to retro-fit and this is the cable that did it for my add-in USB 3.0 board in a Optiplex 760. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbKA5ixsDMQNr2g48 | Europe Has A Burger That's The Size Of 35 Regular Burgers, And People Are Torn
by Jessica Goddard
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The biggest burger in Europe is not only physically larger than the human stomach... it's twice the size of a HUMAN HEAD. Introducing "The Beast", a hamburger so huge you have to break it up into wedges and slice pieces off just to hold it. Not to mention that The Beast is literally too tall for a human mouth to bite into.
This is the biggest burger in Europe ???? pic.twitter.com/O6oZ0IvLRQ
— INSIDER food (@InsiderFood) February 11, 2018
The Beast comes from Blacks Burgers, located in Epsom in Surrey, U.K., a restaurant owned by a father and son team that set out on a mission to make the biggest burger in Europe. The Beast is the main attraction in The Beast Burger Challenge, a race to consume the giant burger, a slab of fries the size of the frying basket, and a milkshake of your choice in ONLY AN HOUR.
Shockingly, twitter users didn't seem fazed:
Nice starter, what's for main?
— nasa (@nasa123456) February 13, 2018
High key, I'll kill it in 10 min
— Big Mike (@Big_Mike_76) February 14, 2018
The Beast is so massive, it's equivalent to the size of 35 regular burgers! Which isn't surprising, since the base of the burger alone is 2 meat patties that weigh in at 2.2 pounds. Each patty is the size of a small pizza, and has to be turned over on the grill with a sheet of metal instead of a common spatula.
The patties aren't the only mindblowingly huge part of The Beast burger. The ginormous buns Blacks Burgers makes from scratch are the equivalent of 3 loaves of bread, and the burger itself is topped with 40 slices of American cheese, 20 strips of bacon, an entire head of lettuce, overlapping tomato slices and red onions, burger sauce, and a blanket of caramelized onions.
While some twitter users were ready to take it on, others responded with the appropriate fear:
I wouldn't be able to enjoy this. Stressing me out just looking ???????????
— Josh (@fightmycase) February 16, 2018
What you meant to do, take couple bites and pass it around the restaurant
— Mizz (@Capo_Mizz) February 12, 2018
An ex-professional boxer - who used to consume 6000 calories a day - tried The Beast Burger Challenge on for size and could barely get through a quarter of the meal. Even the workers at Blacks Burgers don't think the challenge is humanly possible.
Now just think - if this is Europe's biggest burger... how big is the biggest burger in the world?! | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd8k5qsBDH65QV6d1 | Purpose: To increase the clinical awareness of piriformis muscle syndrome (PMs) by reporting the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings and therapeutic outcome in a series of 23 patients with clinically suspected syndrome.
Material and Methods: Within a four-year period, 23 pelvic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies from 23 patients with clinically suspected PMs were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were recruited in four health care centers in three countries. Piriformis muscle (PM) dimensions/signal intensity and the presence of sciatic neuritis were assessed. The piriformis region was examined for the presence of PMs related causes. The syndrome was categorised into primary and secondary, according to a widely used classification system. Treatment decisions were recorded and outcome was categorised as response (R) or no response (NR).
Results: Fourteen patients (61%) showed abnormal signal within the PM, 11 (48%) enlargement of the muscle and 8 (35%) sciatic neuritis. Ten patients were classified in the primary causes and 13 into secondary. Space occupying lesions comprised the leading cause of PMs and imaging played a crucial role both in diagnosis and in treatment planning. Treatment decisions proved effective in 8/8 patients with primary and in 9/13 patients with secondary PMs.
Conclusions: In suspected PMs, MR imaging may depict a spectrum of findings including PM signal alterations/enlargement and sciatic neuritis, related to either primary or secondary causes. Space occupying lesions represented the leading cause of PMs.
Hof JJ, Kliot M, Slimp J, et al. What's new in MRI of peripheral nerve entrapment? Neurosurg Clin N Am 2008; 19: 583-595.
Hernando MF, Cerezal L, Pérez-Carro L, et al. Deep gluteal syndrome: anatomy, imaging, and management of sciatic nerve entrapments in the subgluteal space. Skeletal Radiol 2015; 44: 919-934.
Kulcu DG, Naderi S. Differential diagnosis of intraspinal and extraspinal non-discogenic sciatica. J Clin Neurosci 2008; 15: 1246-1252.
Papadopoulos EC, Khan SN. Piriformis syndrome and low back pain: a new classification and review of the literature. Orthop Clin North Am 2004; 35: 65-71.
Windisch G, Braun EM, Anderhuber F. Piriformis muscle: clinical anatomy and consideration of the piriformis syndrome. Surg Radiol Anat 2007; 29: 37-45.
Boyajian-O'Neill LA, McClain RL, Coleman MK, et al. Diagnosis and management of piriformis syndrome: an osteopathic approach. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2008; 108: 657-664.
Hettler A, Böhm J, Pretzsch M, et al. Extragenital endometriosis leading to piriformis syndrome. Nervenarzt 2006; 77: 474-477.
Papadopoulos SM, McGillicuddy JE, Albers JW. Unusual cause of 'piriformis muscle syndrome'. Arch Neurol 1990; 47: 1144-1146.
Park JH, Jeong HJ, Shin HK, et al. Piriformis ganglion: An uncommon cause of sciatica. Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 2016; 102: 257-260.
Kitagawa Y, Yokoyama M, Tamai K, et al. Chronic expanding hematoma extending over multiple gluteal muscles associated with piriformis syndrome. J Nippon Med Sch 2012; 79: 478-483.
Geelen JA, de Graaff R, Biemans RG, et al. Sciatic nerve compression by an aneurysm of the internal iliac artery. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1985; 87: 219-222.
Murphy DR. Transitional cell carcinoma of the urethra [correction of ureter] in a patient with buttock pain: a case report. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2008; 89: 150-152.
Petchprapa CN, Rosenberg ZS, Sconfienza LM, et al. MR imaging of entrapment neuropathies of the lower extremity. Part 1. The pelvis and hip. Radiographics 2010; 30: 983-1000.
Filler AG, Haynes J, Jordan SE, et al. Sciatica of nondisc origin and piriformis syndrome: diagnosis by magnetic resonance neurography and interventional magnetic resonance imaging with outcome study of resulting treatment. J Neurosurg Spine 2005; 2: 99-115.
Russell JM, Kransdorf MJ, Bancroft LW, et al. MRI of the sacral plexus and piriformis muscles. Skeletal Radiol 2008; 37: 709-713.
Martin HD, Kivlan BR, Palmer IJ, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests for sciatic nerve entrapment in the gluteal region. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2014; 22: 882-888.
Lee EY, Margherita AJ, Gierada DS, et al. MRI of piriformis syndrome. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2004; 183: 63-64.
Vassalou EE, Katonis P, Karantanas AH. Piriformis muscle syndrome: A cross sectional imaging study in 116 patients and evaluation of therapeutic outcome. Eur Radiol 2018; 28: 447-458.
Lewis AM, Layzer R, Engstrom JW, et al. Magnetic resonance neurography in extraspinal sciatica. Arch Neurol 2006; 63: 1469-1472. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUbF04ubnjorNy26xn | Almost 200 people attended the California Department of Public Health's "Ending Violence Against Women and Teen Dating Violence: A forum for Primary Prevention Advocates" held in Sacramento on July 13-14, 2010. This fifth annual gathering focused on teen dating violence.
Other speakers included an opening keynote by Jackson Katz calling for greater engagement of men to address men's violence against women; a session by Elizabeth Reed on "Losing the Gender in Gender-Based Violence" and Clea McNeely, author of The Teen Years Explained; A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development discussing adolescent development.
CALCASA's PreventConnect Project recorded many of sessions and will soon release them as podcasts. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdoI5qoaAwdii6qEl | Growing your business means more or less figuring out the kinds of business strategies you should apply in order to add a new "spin" to your needs. This can be in the form of a new product or service, or a marketing strategy you can use to up the ante on your business needs.
Interestingly, if growing your business is the game, blogger outreach seems to be the modern way to play. In fact, a lot of companies are getting into blogger outreach because of the benefits it could give, both in terms of making new connections and expanding opportunities for rankings. How does this work?
It may help to get a better look into how content can help with your marketing efforts, so you can see why more and more blogs have started getting into blogger outreach.
For instance, in WordPress alone, more than 409-million people actually read more than 22.2-billion (!) blog pages every month. Bloggers alone produce as much as 91.8-million new pieces of content for their viewers to read, which is 77-percent of internet users.
In fact, businesses do benefit from writing blogs. For instance, active blogs of businesses do make 67-percent more leads compared to those that don't, and they have the potential to experience as much as 126-percent higher lead growth.
Marketers who focus on content also seem to be 13-times likelier to see better returns. This also seems to be the attractive marketing choice, as content marketing can generate thrice as much leads as paid search but cost 72-percent less.
With the above taken into consideration, it helps to understand that pushing for better content production can actually be good for your business, especially with best practices.
Researching about bloggers, influencers can help your content approach: When you research about blogs and influencers you can tap into for blogger outreach, you're actually getting a much better idea on how your viewers want content in your niche to appear. Remember, you're planning to communicate with bloggers and influencers to have them make content for you. Even if these don't push through, exploring blogs, websites, and social media accounts owned by your partner prospects still can give good insights towards your audience expectations.
Start to develop, cultivate lasting relationships through proper communication: When you establish communication with bloggers and influencers, don't just use a "spammy" template with your email or point of contact. These bloggers likely receive a lot of messages everyday, so make sure yours stand out. Make your communications straightforward, and your intentions clear. What do you want them to do for you, and what can you offer for them? Make your emails to them "personalized" (even with a template that appears personalized), so your communication with them is natural.
Offer something of value to your potential partners: When you communicate with bloggers, or before you even communicate with them, make sure you're offering something valuable to them. What is something that they would appreciate on your end that they might like to review? Try to make sure it's something related to their specific niche, or the specific approach to their blog.
Keep track of the progress of all your communications: Keeping track and keeping tabs of your blogger outreach efforts is an extremely important aspect of making everything work. Make sure you have a document handy and analytics tools that will allow you to track specific keywords or identify places where links to your site or topics about your content are being written and discussed. This gives you a better picture on how far your content or content about you is reaching, and what sort of people find them appealing to read about.
Follow through by sharing in your various platforms: When bloggers and influencers do start making content for you, follow through by sharing their work, posting on your platforms, or using social media to "promote" the content. This at least makes the blogger or influencer aware that you're with them even beyond your correspondence. This also paves way to a much stronger relationship between you and your partners in the long run.
With the above taken into consideration, you might notice just how blogger outreach from companies like No BS Agency can actually pave way not just to increased rankings, but also increase exposure of your brand to various audience members.
Not only that, blogger outreach also provides tremendous opportunities for you to connect and establish good relationships with bloggers and influencers. This essentially means blogger outreach really allows your business to grow not just from a returns standpoint, but also from a growth standpoint. Are you ready to use blogger outreach? | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdfw5qsBC4wbX-0JN | Okay, it's been a busy week. You've had work, errands, housework, the kids had a thousand places to be. You barely had time to make dinner. However, here you are, Super Bowl Sunday and YOU HAVE NO SNACKS!!! What are you going to do!?! You HAVE to have snacks for the big game! Don't worry, I bet you can find everything you need to whip up a FANTASTIC Nachos Supreme in no time! Just head on over to your pantry and fridge and I'll show you what I'm talking about!
Next place a skillet over a medium/high heat.
Add 2-3 tbsp. of oil.
Now you can start to really amp up the flavor!
Break up the ground beef with a rubber spatula and stir so that everything is well coated in the spices.
Cook until the ground beef has browned and and is no longer pink, about 10 min.
Okay, so you know when you use a taco seasoning packet you add water to create a sauce. Well we are going to apply that same principle here. However, water really doesn't enhance the flavor any so I thought why not use the liquid from the can of diced tomatoes and chilies. You will get the liquid you need to create a lovely sauce and you will get the added flavor of the tomato and green chili.
So pour the liquid from the can of diced tomatoes and green chilies into the meat and spices and let it reduce by half.
Since we are using refried beans from a can you are going to need to wake them up a little bit.
Pour (or plop lol) them into a small sauce pan. Add a splash of water to the pan, stir it around, and heat over medium/high heat until smooth and workable.
Now it is time to bring is all together!
You are going to need a baking sheet and cover it with foil.
Place the tortilla chips, in a single layer, on the baking sheet.
On a side note, you don't have to use this type of chip. You can use nacho chips, fritos, whatever you desire! That is part of the fun of pantry cooking. It is whatever you have on hand.
Now you can dollop the warm refried beans around the baking sheet, on the chips.
Next, sprinkle the saucy beef over the chips.
Place in the 400 degree, preheated oven for 5 minutes.
When you pull it out of the oven the nachos are done, but they aren't supreme!
Sprinkle the diced tomatoes with green chilies over the nachos.
Then top with sour cream, sliced black olives, green onions, cilantro, whatever you like.
You are not going to get anything like this at a restaurant or fast food place!
I can't resist. I MUST take a bite!
So good! Crunchy, salty, spicy, cheesy, beefy, creamy, tart, EVERYTHING your game day nachos should be! These nacho are so scrum-dil-icious that NO ONE will guess that you threw it together at the last minute and you, my friend, will be the MVP in the eyes of all your friends and family! So head on into the kitchen and give this Nacho Supreme a try.
Next place a skillet over a medium/high heat and add 2-3 tbsp. of oil.
Add the ground beef to the pan and season with salt, pepper, onion powder, oregano, chili powder, cumin, and smoked paprika.
Break up the meat with a spatula and stir until all of the meat is coated with the spices.
Let the ground beef cook until brown and there is no more pink, about 10 minutes.
Add the liquid from the diced tomatoes and green chilies to the skillet and let reduce by half to make a sauce.
Heat the refried beans in a sauce pan with a splash of water until heated through and smooth. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdY84uzlha6mQpHaU | مواردي وجود دارند كه بايد وقتي كودكتان از چهار دست و پا راه رفتن به راه رفتن روي دو پا عادت ميكند به آنها توجه كنيد.در اين مواقع خطرات افزايش مييابند و تلاشهاي شما در جهت ايمن كردن محيط نيز بايد به همين سرعت افزايش يابند.
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BkiUdwg5qsBDH82z66PF | Q: How to add, edit, delete and save xml node in as3 My xml file is like this,
<GALLERY COLUMNS="3" XPOSITION="30" YPOSITION="30" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="150">
<IMAGE FULL="Tinku.png" Title="Tinku" THUMB="thumbs/thumb1.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Tinku" />
<IMAGE FULL="Kaal.png" Title="Kaal" THUMB="thumbs/thumb2.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Kaal" />
<IMAGE FULL="Painters.png" Title="Little Painters" THUMB="thumbs/thumb3.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Painters" />
</GALLERY>
How to add a new node like the one below,
<IMAGE FULL="Lost.png" Title="Lost and Found" THUMB="thumbs/thumb4.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Lost" />
Also i want to know how to delete a particular node
var myXMLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("gallery.xml"));
myXMLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
function processXML(e:Event):void {
myXML = new XML(e.target.data);
images = myXML.IMAGE;
total = images.length();
myXMLLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
myXMLLoader = null;
var imageName:String = images[i].@FULL;
loader = new Loader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("images/" + imageName));
}
add_bt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, addnode);
private function addnode(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var new_node:XML = <IMAGE FULL="Lost.png" Title="Lost and Found" THUMB="thumbs/thumb4.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Lost" />
myXML.appendChild(new_node);
trace(myXML);
}
Thanks in advance
A: To add an XML node to your XML object, you can use XML.appendChild() like this :
var xml:XML =
<GALLERY COLUMNS="3" XPOSITION="30" YPOSITION="30" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="150">
<IMAGE FULL="Tinku.png" Title="Tinku" THUMB="thumbs/thumb1.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Tinku" />
<IMAGE FULL="Kaal.png" Title="Kaal" THUMB="thumbs/thumb2.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Kaal" />
<IMAGE FULL="Painters.png" Title="Little Painters" THUMB="thumbs/thumb3.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Painters" />
</GALLERY>;
var new_node:XML = <IMAGE FULL="Lost.png" Title="Lost and Found" THUMB="thumbs/thumb4.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Lost" />
xml.appendChild(new_node);
trace(xml);
gives :
<GALLERY COLUMNS="3" XPOSITION="30" YPOSITION="30" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="150">
<IMAGE FULL="Tinku.png" Title="Tinku" THUMB="thumbs/thumb1.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Tinku"/>
<IMAGE FULL="Kaal.png" Title="Kaal" THUMB="thumbs/thumb2.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Kaal"/>
<IMAGE FULL="Painters.png" Title="Little Painters" THUMB="thumbs/thumb3.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Painters"/>
<IMAGE FULL="Lost.png" Title="Lost and Found" THUMB="thumbs/thumb4.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Lost"/>
</GALLERY>
Then, to delete an XML node, you can use the delete() operator :
// delete the node with the "Title" attribut is 'Kaal'
delete xml.*.(@Title == 'Kaal')[0];
trace(xml);
gives :
<GALLERY COLUMNS="3" XPOSITION="30" YPOSITION="30" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="150">
<IMAGE FULL="Tinku.png" Title="Tinku" THUMB="thumbs/thumb1.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Tinku"/>
<IMAGE FULL="Painters.png" Title="Little Painters" THUMB="thumbs/thumb3.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Painters"/>
<IMAGE FULL="Lost.png" Title="Lost and Found" THUMB="thumbs/thumb4.jpg" Path="file:///storage/emulated/0/Raconteur/Lost"/>
</GALLERY>
For more details about working with XML you can take a look here.
Hope that can help.
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BkiUcBXxK7ICUyBuzmZP | Siobhan Gregory is an industrial designer and applied anthropologist, living and working in Detroit. Her research focuses on the progress of a more human-centered design practice. In the business sector, she pulls from anthropological theory and methods to help organizations form deep and meaningful connections with their customers through culturally informed product development, service innovations, and brand direction.
Siobhan got her start as an automotive designer for General Motors working in many capacities including: portfolio strategy, brand strategy, in advanced pre-production and production studios. She later made a career change to become the lead woman's footwear designer for the Keds Corporation where, with a strong sense of history and Keds as a cultural icon, she helped bring style and relevancy back to this heritage American brand. Siobhan now works on a broad range of design research projects in the business sector and beyond. She has led design-related engagements in partnership with Kelton for many years, and joined the faculty of Wayne State University in 2012. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfTA5qhLB3UNjqP_2 | 12 Dywizjon Artylerii Pancernej – samodzielny pododdział broni pancernej ludowego Wojska Polskiego
Formowanie i zmiany organizacyjne
Sformowany na mocy rozkazu Naczelnego Dowódcy WP nr 16 z 3 września 1944. W działa samobieżne Su-76 wyposażony został 1 lutego 1945 w Rembertowie.
Żołnierze dywizjonu złożyli przysięgę 29 października 1944.
Działania bojowe
Dywizjon prowadził działania bojowe w składzie 9 Drezdeńskiej Dywizji Piechoty z 2 Armii Wojska Polskiego.
W chwili zakończenia wojny posiadał jedno działo samobieżne SU-76
Skład etatowy
Dowództwo
pluton dowodzenia,
3 baterie dział samobieżnych
4 działony
drużyny: zaopatrzenia bojowego, remontowa, gospodarcza, punkt sanitarny
żołnierzy – 165 (oficerów – 51, podoficerów – 73, kanonierów – 41)
sprzęt:
działa samobieżne SU-76 – 13
samochód pancerny BA-64 – 1
samochody – 19
motocykle – 4
Kamuflaż i oznakowanie wozów
Wozy bojowe malowano farbą olejną koloru ciemnozielonego. Poszczególne pojazdy mogły różnić się odcieniem, a nawet i kolorem.
Jeśli okoliczności tego wymagały, malowano pojazdy w nieregularne plamy różnej wielkości i kształtu. Obok podstawowego koloru wykorzystywano brąz, czerń lub piaskowy. Taki sposób malowania stosowano jednak sporadycznie.
Zimą wozy bojowe malowano na biało, tzw. bielidłem. Biel nakładano bezpośrednio na ochronną farbę zieloną, przy czym pokrywano nią albo cały pojazd, albo też tylko część jego powierzchni, tworząc nieregularne plamy deformujące kształt. Zamiast farby mogło być używane wapno.
Na wieży malowano orła. Stylizowany, aczkolwiek znacznie uproszczony kształt orła wzorowany był na orle piastowskim. Wysokość orła wahała się od 20 do 40 cm.
Oznakowanie taktyczne
Numery taktyczne dywizjonu:
dowódca — 1200
1 bateria — 1211, 1212, 1213, 1214
2 bateria — 1221, 1222, 1223, 1224
3 bateria — 1231, 1232, 1233, 1234
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